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EOYAL SOCIETY. 



NOVEMBER, 1865. 



lihe monthly evening meeting of the Fellows was beld at the Museum om 

 Tuesday, the 14th November, Tlie Hon. R. Officer, Esq., V.P , in the chair. 

 The Secretary laid on the ta'de the usual monthly returns, viz. : — 



1. Visitor!? to Museum daring October, 470. 



2. Ditto to Gardens ditto, 1907. 



3. Tench supplied ditto, 6. 



4. Time of leafing, flowering, &c., of a few standard planti in Bokanit 



Gardens. 



5. Books and periodicals received. 

 Meteorological Returns. 



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

 (a) Table for October; 



(6) Abstract of ditto. 



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

 (a) Table for September. 



(6) Reading of schooner's Barometer for ditto. 

 4. Tamar Heads, from R. Henry, Esq. 

 (a) Table for October. 



6. Ross, from M .Dancanson, Esq. 

 (a) Table for September. 



(6) Ditto for October. 

 6. From G. Smallev, Esq., Government Astronomer, Sydney. 



(a) Monthly Meteorological Tables from June 1857 to December 1858. 

 (h) Ditto ditto for 1859, 



(c) Astronomical Observations, Sydney, for 1859. 



(d) Astronomical and Meteorological ditto, 1860. 



(e) Ditto ditto ditto 1861. 

 (/) Ditto ditto ditto 1862. 



{g) Meteorological ditto 1863. 



{h) Diagrams (4) of Barometrical Curves at Stations in New South Wales. 



The usual analysis of the Hobart Town Meteorological Table, with a Health 

 Beport for the month, by E. S. Hall, Esq., was read by the Secretary. 



Dr. Hall called the attention of the meeting to the fact that during the 

 prevalence of the hot-wind on Saturday last, (llth inst.,) the self-registering 

 Shade Thermometer, at Mr. Abbott's observatory at 1 p.m. recorded a 

 temperature of 95 degrees, and the Solar Thermometer 1293 degrees. In 

 33 hours afterwards the Shade Thermometer had fallen 50 degrees. 



The presentations were as follows : — 



1. Skeleton of Dolphin {Delphinus Sp.) Presented by M. AUport, Esq. 



2. Specimen of Squid {Loligo). Presented by Captain Smith, barqxia 

 Catherine. 



3. Ditto of Holothuria, from Sandy Bay. Presented by H. M. Hull, Esq. 



4. Ditto of Flounder, malformed. Presented by Mr. Cearns. 



5. Four copper coins, one American cent ; one 20 cash. East India Company; 

 one half -penny token, St. Helena, and one token, unknown. Presented 

 by Mr. J.Nathan. 



6. Tippet Grebe [Podiceps Australis). Presented by J. G. Stansfield, 

 Esq., Jericho. 



7. " Volcanic Bombs," from Mount Talbot, Victoria. Presented by Dr. 

 Officer. 



A pamphlet by Col. Crawford (Richmond) entitled "A Letter to tha 

 Officers of H. M. Indian Services, Civil and Military," accompanied by a 

 letter presenting it to the Society, was laid on the table. 



The Secretary after reminding the Fellows that the Society had been 

 honored by the presentation by Her Majesty (our patron) of r. copy of 

 " The principal speeches and addresses of His Royal Highness the Princ« 



