PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER. XXxv 



NOVEMBER, 1888. 



The monthly meeting of the Royal Society was held in the new wing 

 of the Tasmanian Museum on November 13. The chair was occupied 

 by His Excellency Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton, K.U.B., 

 President of the Society. 



ADDITIONS TO LIBRARY, 



List of additions to the library during the month of October : — 



Annual Report of the Secretary for Mines and Water Supply, 

 Victoria, "On the working of the Regulation and Inspection of Mines 

 and Mining Machinery Act during the year 1887." — From the 

 Department. 



Annals and Magazines of Natural History. 



BoUettinodellaSocietiiGeograficaltaliaua, Serie III., Vol. I., Fasicolo 

 VIII., Agosto 1888.— From the Society. 



Classified Index of the Second Supplement to the Indigenous and 

 Naturalised Plants of Queensland, with alphabetical index of Genera 

 by F. Manson Bailey, F.L.S. — From the Author. 



Die Internationale Polarforschung 1882-83, Beobachtungs-Ergebnisae 

 der Norwegischen Polarstation Bossekop in Alten. — From the Depart- 

 ment. 



Geological Magazine, current numbers. 



Iconography of Australian species of Acacia and Cognate genera, by 

 Baron F. Von Mueller, K.C.M.G. (Twelfth decade.)— From the Govern- 

 ment. 



.Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 

 Vol. XXII, pt. 1. — From the Society. 



Meteorological Service, Dominion of Canada. Monthly Weather 

 Preview, June, ISSS. — From the Department. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 1888, Vol. V., pt. II. 

 — From the Society. 



Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, decade XVI., by Frederick 

 McCoy, C.M.G. — From the Government. 



Report on the Geological Features of the Mackay District by R. L. 

 Jack, Government Geologist. — From the Department. 



Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. IV., No. 9. — From the Society. 



Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. V., VI., parts 

 7, 8, N.S. parts 1, 2. — From the Society. 



Scientific Transactions cf the Royal Dublin Society, vol. Ill,, series 

 II. XV. — The Echinoderm Fauna of the Island of Ceylon, by F. Jeffrey 

 Bell, M.A. Vol. IV'., series II. — On Fossil — Fish Remains from 

 the Tertiary and Cretaceotcrtiary Formations of New Zealand, by J. W. 

 Davis, F.G.S. — From the Society. 



Summary and Review of International Meteorological Observations 

 for the month of July, 1887, United States. — From the War Department. 



Synopsis of the Queensland Flora, containing both the Phcrnogamous 

 and Cryptogamous Plants, byF. M. Bailey (bound). — From the Author. 



Transactions aud Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of 

 Australasia (Victorian Branch), Pt. 1, Vol. VI. — From the Society. 



Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. 

 XXIV., Pt. II. — From the Society. 



Transactions of the Geolological Society of Australasia, Vol. I., Pt. 

 III. — From the Society. 



Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 

 VII., Pts. 1 and 2. — From the Society. 



Victorian Year Book for 1S87-8, Vol. 1. — From the Government 

 Statist. 



