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MARCH, 1864. 



The monthly evening meeting of the Society (being the first of 

 the session of 1864) was held at the Museum, Macquarie-street, on 

 Tuesday the 8th March, G. P. Adams, Esq., in the chair. 



The following gentlemen having been nominated by the Council,were, 

 after a ballot, declared to be duly elected Fellows of the Society : — 

 H. Bilton, Esq., Glenorchy j J. G. Crouch, Esq., Hobart Town j A. T. 

 Seal, Esq., New Town. 



ThefoUowirg returns were laid on the table : — 



1. Visitors to Gardens during February, 1,896. 



2. Plants forwarded to Government Gardens, Auckland,New Zealand, 

 in return for plants received, 43. 



Seeds supplied (papers), 48, 



3. Tench supplied to Mr. Baynton, 12 ; do to Mr. Butler, for Lake 

 Echo, 65. 



4. Periodicals received, (the usual.) 



5. Specimens forwarded to Dr. Witte, Eoyal Museum, Hanover, 46. 

 Meteorological Returns. 



1. Hobart Town, from F. Abbott, Esq. 

 (a.) Table for February. 



(6.) Summary and analysis of observations for ditto. 



2. Port Arthur, from J. Boyd, Esq. 



(a.) Tables for November and December, 1863, and January, 1864. 

 (&.) Reading of Government schooner's barometer for ditto. 



3; Swansea, from Dr. Story. 



{a.) Tables for November and December, 1863, and January, 1864. 



The Secretary read the usual Analysis of the Meteorological obser- 

 vations, together with a health report'for the month by E. S.Hall, Esq. 



The following presentations were brought under the notice of the 

 meeting:— 1. Twenty prepared skins of Queensland birds ; from Mr. 

 Waller, Brisbane. 2. Two samples of Sea Island cotton grown in 

 Queensland; from Mr. Wright, Brisbane. 3. Jaw of Sperm Whale j 

 from Mrs. Seal. 4. Ditto, from W. L. Crowther, Esq. 5. Specimen of 

 Gorgoniafrom D'Entrecasteaux Channel; from Mr. Baynton, Brown's 

 Eiver; 6. Bronze Medal of Royal Horticultural Society, "Awarded to 

 the colony of Tasmania for an exhibition of wheat, October 1862"; from 

 the Commissioners for Tasmania. 7. Skull of " Schnapper" ; from Mr. 

 Wintle. ** 8. Eleven specimens of Minerals and Fossils ; from Miss 

 E. Boultbee, Avoca. 9. Fossil (Spirifer Sp.) ; from Mrs. Geiss, Bridge- 

 water. 10. Specimen of granite from Castlemaine, Victoria ; from G. 

 Whitcombe, Esq. 11. A piece of wood with clusters of oysters and 

 mussels attached, found in the Derwent, near Mount Direction ; from 

 E, Cleburne, Esq. 



The Secretary reported that in exchange for a liberal presentation 

 received from Dr. Witte of the Eoyal Museum of Hanover, the CouncQ 

 bad recently forwarded to that gentleman a collection of Tasmanian 

 bird and other skins, which it was hoped would be found acceptable. 

 [The present opportunity may be taken to intimate to the Fellows of the 

 Society and others, that the Council are very anxious to receive either 

 recent specimens, skins, or well prepared skeletons of the native devil 

 {SarcopMlus ursinus), and of the native tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), 

 also specimens of our reptiles, &c., which will be valuable not only as 

 a means of enriching our own collection, but for the purpose of effect- 

 ing exchanges with other museums, which would in every way be 

 advantageous to us.] 



The Secretary called attention to the copies of the report for 1863, 

 on the table, which were now ready for distribution, and announced 

 that from Monday, the 12th instant, the lower rooms of the Museum 

 would be open to the public from 12 till 5 o'clock daily, Tuesdays 

 excepted. 



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