306 ANNUAL REPORT. 



U.S. TAS. 



In tiie "Papers and Proceedings" for 1912, there were 

 published the first parts of a complete revision of the 

 Bryophyta of Tasmania, by Mr. L. Rodway. A further 

 part of this paper, completing the Mosses, is published 

 in the volume for 1913. Mr. Rodway has been at the 

 exnense of having some additional copies of his paper 

 printed, and has presented them to the Society for sale. 

 The various parts have been bound together, paged con- 

 secutively, and issued as a separate volume. ^ 



The Society is indebted to the Chairman of the Coun- 

 cil for arranging for the Society to obtain for the ''Papers 

 and Proceedings,"' at a small cost, copies of two papers, by 

 Mr. E. L. Piesse, on Proportional Representation, which 

 were issued also as State publications by the Electoral 

 Department. 



A map of Ben Lomond, by Colonel Legge, an old and 

 much esteemed member of the Society, is published with 

 the ''Papers and Proceedings" for 1913, in illustration of 

 a paper in which Messrs. Giblin, Piesse, and Hutchison 

 gave an account of their determination of the height of 

 Legge Peak, now found to be the highest summit in Tas- 

 mania. The Council was anxious that Colonel Legge's 

 map shotuld be reproduced in the best style, and arrange- 

 ments were made, through the kind offices of the Agent- 

 General for Tasmania, for the map to be printed at the 

 Ordnance Survey, Southampton. Before the printing of 

 the map, the Tourist Associations in Hobart and Laun- 

 ceston agreed to purchase 100 copies each, and the ex- 

 pense of the map has thus been much lessened. 



A catalogue of Tasmanian newspapers, commencing in 

 1810, is in preparation, and it is hoped to publish it in 

 the "Papers and Proceedings" for 1914. 



The Library. 

 The Council found that the Society's Library had 

 long overgrown the accommodation provided for it. Not 

 only was there no shelving for many of the books which 

 were in the library-room, but many hundreds of volumes 

 were in other rooms in the Museum, in the basement, and in 

 cupboards. A rearrangement of the books, and the re- 

 moval of many duplicates to a storeroom, gave some addi- 

 tional space; and the Council also installed additional 

 shelving, which will accommodate about 1,200 volumes. 

 It is still necessary, however, to keep many books in 



* Copies are not available for presentation. 



