284 ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



R.S. TAS. 



Mr. W. Asiiton Jones, Mr. L. F. Piesse, Profes- 

 sor J. H. Mackay, M.C.E., Mr. J. W. Green, Mr. 

 Gordon Wood, Mr. C. E. Lord, Mr. J. C. E. Knight, and 

 Mr. A. W. Adams, were elected members. 



Exhibits. 



Mr. L. Rodway exhibited a specimen of a stunted 

 eucalyptus found by Mr. E. P. Harrison at the foot of 

 Brown Mountain, at the entrance to Port Arthur. It is 

 apparently a form of Euc. globulus Lab., rather close to 

 the condition of that species as found in Gippsland, and 

 differs from the type in the smaller, less falcate, leaves, 

 the flowers smaller and in threes, and the fruit smaller, 

 less rugose, with a rather sunk capsule. The tree appears 

 to be rather close to the form recently described by R. 

 T. Baker as Eur. umalata, but it may for the present very 

 well be referred to as Euc. globulus var. Harrisoni. Some 

 Eucalypts respond in a remarkable manner to change of 

 environment, and it will be very interesting to note the 

 result of growing this tree from seed on good garden soil. 



Mr. Rodway also exhibited a specimen of bluegum tim- 

 ber, which had been taken from a beam in the old Bar- 

 racks at Hobart, and had done duty for nearly a hundred 

 years, and yet was perfectly sound and fresh. 



A pair of large tumors from the stem of a small sassafras 

 w^ere also shown by Mr. Rodway. The cause of tlie en- 

 largement in each case was a stump of dead branch about 

 an inch long. Sassafras has the peculiar habit of shed- 

 ding its dead branches with a clear line of demarcation, 

 leaving a concave smooth scar, which readily becomes 

 covered v.'ith advancing tissue. In these instances the 

 branches appear to have been broken off at an inch from 

 the base, and the stumps were not rejected. New tissues 

 covering them were stimulated in some manner to exces- 

 sive growth, with the result that these large galls were 

 produced. The tissue of the galls was normal zylem. 



Mr. C. T. Harrisson exhibited some sketches made in the 

 Antarctic. 



Pajiers. 



The following papers were read : — 



"A Rectification in the Cartography of North-East Tas- 

 mania." By Colonel W. V. Legge, F.R.G S. 



"The Height of Ben Lomond.' By L. F. Giblin, B.A., 

 E. L. Piesse, B.Sc, LL.B., and H. R. Hutchison, author- 

 ised survevor. 



