suitably house the collection. There is ample room in the 

 Museum, and plenty of cases which are now filled up with what 

 may be called rubbish. If the rubbish is put in the cellars the 

 cases can be used for the exhibition of the Petterd collection. 

 After paying for the printing of the Society's journal and cur- 

 rent expenses it was expected that they would be £25 on the 

 wrong side. He could assure the meeting that the Journal 

 would not suffer. 



Dr. Butler supported the motion, which was declared carried. 



Dr. Butler moved: — "That the question of exhibiting the 

 Petterd collection be considered at the next meeting of the 

 Society, and that the Council be requested to bring up a report 

 ■to that meeting as to the approximate cost." 



Dr. Sprott seconded the motion. 



The Chairman said that the first motion carried only com- 

 mitted the Society to the payment of the probate duty. Any 

 further proposed expenditure would have to be brought before 

 a meeting of the Societ}', and discussed and decided there. 



The motion was carried. 



SECRETARYSHIP OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. A. D. \\'atchorn, on behalf of the Council, said that a 

 question had arisen as to the custody of a document in the pos- 

 session of the Society, and it had become necessary for the 

 Society to allow itself to be sued to enable the question of its 

 ownership to be decided. The Society, according to the Act, could 

 only be sued through its Secretary. As the office at present was 

 non-existent, it was necessary to appoint a Secretary, and he 

 moved that ^Ir. Bernard Shaw be appointed to that position, the 

 office to be honorary. 



Mr. E. L. Piesse seconded the motion, which was carried. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. L. Rodway exhibited a specimen of a plant not hitherto 

 described from Tasmania. It grew on the Western Tiers, and 

 had been identified by Professor Ewart, of Melbourne, as a new 

 species of flax, and named by him Linum aloida. It differed in 

 "the structure of the flower from the conunon species of Linum. 



Mr. Rodway also exhibited specimens of the wood of 

 Eucalyptus Gunnii, which, in the Uxbridge district, where it 

 reached a height of 300ft., was known as the yellow gum. It 

 was a very valuable timber, and was locally used for mauls, on 

 account of its toughness. The specimen of timber would be 

 presented 10 the ]\luseum for exhibition. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ. 



I. Additions to the Catalogue <jf the Marine Shells of Tas- 

 mania. By W. L. May. 



The paper furnishes a list of some 50 species of marine 

 shells not hitherto recorded in Tasmania, some of which are 

 probably new species. v,-!iich were dredged by the author near 

 Frcycinet Peninsula in March, 1910, from depths up to 80 



