to take charge of the Petterd collection of minerals provided' 

 it was placed in their charge on loan for 999 years. 



Dr. Butler expressed pleasure at the fact that finality was at 

 last being reached in the matter. Had any delay occurred there 

 was a possibility that the collection would have been lost to 

 Hobart and to the State. It was a matter for regret that the 

 collection was not bequeathed to the Museum, as all difficulty 

 would thus have been got over at once. 



^,h-. R. M. Johnston moved that the collection bequeathed 

 to the Royal Society of Tasmania be lodged in the Museum in 

 accordance with the terras of the Museum trustees' letter. 



The motion was seconded by ]\Ir. G. Brettingham Moore, 

 and carried. 



APPOINTMENT OF DELEGATE. 



Nominations were received for the position of delegate of 

 the Society to the Annual Meeting of the Australasian Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, to be held in Sydney 

 shortly. As the result of a ballot Mr. W. H. Twelvetrees, 

 Government Geologist, was elected as the Society's delegate. 



THE NORMAN VOCABULARV. 



The manuscript recently discovered among the papers of the 

 Society containing the vocabulary compiled by the Rev. James 

 Norman, of Sorell. from his intercourse with the aborigines of 

 Southern .and Eastern Tasmania, was ordered to be printed. 



THE LATE MR. BERNARD SHAW. 



The Chairman referred to the loss that the Society had sus- 

 tained by the death of Mr. Bernard Shaw, who was Chairman 

 of the Council for the last two 3^ears. and had rendered valuable 

 services to the Society. The deceased gentleman had won the 

 love and respect of all the Members. The Trustees of the 

 Museum had decided to place on record some memorial of INIr. 

 Shaw, and it had been suggested that the Society and the 

 Trustees should send a joint message of sympathy to Mrs. Shaw. 



The suggestion was unanimously adopted. 



OCTOBER 10, 1910. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held at the 

 Museum on the evening of October 10, 1910. 



Mr. T. Stephens, M.A., F.G.S., a Vice-President, in the chair. 



SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Dr. Fritz Noetling was appointed Secretary of the Society,, 

 for the purposes of Section V. of the Royal Society Act, i8. 

 Vict., No. 4. in the place of the late Mr. Bernard Shaw. 



