MAY. 1910. 



The General Monthly Meeting was not held this month, on 

 account of the lamented death of His Majesty King Edward. 

 VII., Patron of the Society. 



JUNE 13. 1910. 



The General Monthly jNIeeting of the Society was held at 

 the Museum on Monday evening, June 13, 1910. 



Mr. R. M. Johnston, F.L.S., I.S.O.. a Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS. 



Messrs, J. S. Purdy, M.D.. CM., D.P.H., F.R.G.S.. A. Kirk, 

 D. Salier, H. Holt, and Thos. J. Steele were elected Fellows, and 

 Mr. A. AI. Lea an Associate of the Society. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. A. O. Green submitted notes taken at Bcllerive at the 

 time of the recent eclipse of the sun. of which the following is 

 aij abstract: — 



" At 3 p.m. the whole sky was overcast with small soft clouds 

 coming from the N.N.E.. though the sky was somewhat lighter 

 in the N. and in S.W. and S. By 3.50 p.m. it grew perceptibly 

 darker, the dusk increasing, the temperature falling, birds 

 silently flying into trees. A newspaper could be read with ease 

 at 4.7 p.m. From 4.14 to 4.20 p.m. it was too dark to write, and 

 all the while the clouds showed a bluish tinge. At 4.18 p.m. it 

 was possible to read again, and the clouds were slightly tinted 

 orange. At 4.29 p.m. the yellow-tails and white-eyes were chat- 

 tering- in bushes, and at 4.40 p.m. the yellow-tails were singing. 

 A steady rain commenced at 4.40 p.m., lasting till 8.30 p.m.. 

 when the sky cleared m the N.W. At 3 p.m. the thermometer 

 showed 59.8deg. ; at the time of the first contact (3.10 p.m.), 

 58.9deg. ; the temperature gradually fell till 4.10 p.m., when 

 53.3deg. was recorded. The totality lasted from 4h. I4min. 

 I2sec. to 4h. I7min. 6sec., and at 4.15 p.m. the thermometer 

 showed 53deg. The minimum was reached at 4.40 p.m.. when 

 52deg. was recorded, and then there was a slight rise, the ther- 

 mometer remaining at 52.ideg. from 4.45 to 4.55 p.m.. while the 

 last observation at 5 p.m. showed 52deg. again."" 



The Chairman exhibited a specimen of the mackerel of 

 South-Eastern Australia (Scomber antarcticus). It was first 

 described as a new species by Castelnau, who was one of the 

 earliest observers of Victorian fishes. The present specimen 

 came from Cape Raoul. Fish of this species often entered the 

 Derwent in vast shoals, but he had never procured a specimen 

 for s^^ years. The fish was a very beautiful one. and an excel- 

 lent one for the table. It was almost identical with the English 

 mackerel. 



