PROCEEDINGS, AUGUST. XXI 



AUGUST, 1888. 



The monthly meeting of the Royal Society was held at the Tasmanian 

 Museum on August 13th. The president (His Excellency, Sir Robert 

 G. C. Hamilton, K.C.B.), occupied the chair. 



Mr. Alex. Morton read a letter from Mr. G. Thureau, F.G.S., calling 

 the attention of the society to the following announcement which 

 appeared in the illustrated />c//);/.'ye/' iYe";.s of .July .10, 1SS7 : — " Dr. 

 Albucht von Groddeck, Royal Mining Counsellor and Director of the 

 United Mining Academy and School of Mines, at Clauthsal, Hanover, 

 on the ISth June, 1SS7, 50 years of age." The deceased gentleman 

 was a foreign correspondent of the Society. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



The following list of additions to the library during .July was 

 tabled :— 



Account of the operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of 

 India. Vol X. Electro-Telegraphic Longitude operations executed 

 during the years lSSl-2, 1SS23, and 18S.3-4, by Major G. Strahan, 

 R.E., and Major \V. .T. Heaviside, R.E. (Bound.). — From the Survey 

 Department. 



American Agriculturist. (Current Nos.) 



Annals and Magazines of Natural History. (Current Nos.) 



Annual Report of the Department of Mines, New South Wales, 

 for the year 1887. From the Department. 



Biblcothcque deM. L'Abbe Favre (pamphlet), Paris, ISSS. — From the 

 Society. 



Boletin da Socicdade de Geographia de Lisboa, 7a. serie., Nos. 

 5-6-7-S. — From the Society. 



BoUettino della Sooieta Gcograti^a Italiana, serie III., Vol. 1., 

 Fascicolo V., Maggio, 1888. — From the Society. 



Boletin Mensual del Observatorio Meteorclogico del Colegio Pio de 

 Villa Colon. Ano. I. mes de Enero No. 2 (Montevideo). —From the 

 Society. 



Bulletin of the New "iork State Museum of Natural History, No. 3, 

 March, 1888.— From the Museum. 



Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada. Alfred R. C. 

 Selwynn, C.M.G., L.L.D., etc.. Director. 



•Summary Report of the operations of the Geolotrical and Natural 

 History Survey, to .Slst December, 1887, being Pt. III. 



Annual Report of the Department of the Interior, 1S87. — From the 

 Department. 



Geological Maetazine. Current Nos. 



GokUields of Victoria. The Reports of tha Mining Registrars for 

 the (quarter ended 31st March, 1888. — From the Secretary of Mines. 



Iconography of Australian Species of Acacia and Cognate Genera, 

 0th, 10th, 11th Decade. By Baron F. Von Mueller, K.C.M.G. From 

 the Government. 



Imperial Federation (current Nos.) From the Editor. 



Journal of the Royil Microscopical Society, Pt. .3, 1888, June. From 

 the .Society. 



List of Hepaticfe, collected by Mr. Thomas Whitelegge in New South 

 Wales, 1884-5, by B. Carrington, M.D., F.R.S.E., and W. H. Pearson. 

 (Pamphlet.) From the Authors. 



Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the Observa- 

 tory, llombay, in the year 18S8, under the direction of Charles Cham- 

 bers, F.R.S. — From the Government. 



