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JULY, 1870. 



The monthly evening meeting of the Society was held on Tuesday, the 

 12th July, J. iiarnard, Esq., in the chair. 



The following gentlemen, who had been put in nomination, were, after 

 a ballot, dechircd duly elected members of the Society, viz. : — G. Wilson, 

 Esq., J.P., lIobartTown; C. Ilazell, E.«q., J.P., Carlton; R. V. Legge, 

 Esq., J.P., Cullenswood ; and Hon. J. Aikenhead, Esq., M.L.C., Laun- 

 ceston. 



The Secretary submitted the following returns :— 



1. Visitors to Museum during June, G29. 



2. Ditto to gardens during June, 1208. 



3. Plants, &c., received at gardens. 



4. Ditto sent from gardens. 



5. Times of leafing, flowering, &c., of a few standard plants in Botanic 



Gardens. 



6. Books, &c., received. 



7. Presentations to Museum. 

 Meteorological Ret urns : — 



1. Hobart Town— From F. Abbott, Esq., Table for June. 



2. Port Arthur— From J. Boyd, Esq., ditto. 



3. Westbury — From F. Belstead, Esq., ditto. 



4. New Zealand — From the Government, ditto for May. 



5. Adelaide — From C. Todd, Esq., ditto for January. 



The presentations to the Museum and Library were as follows : — 



1. From Mr. H. Turner — A Persian or Hindoo copper coin. 



2. From Mr. W. Maum — A copper medal (apparently Masonic), found 



at Clarence Plains. 



3. From Rev. H. D. Atkinson — A Spider Crab from Three Hut Point. 



4. From Mr. Ikin — 12 specimens Crustacea. 



5. From Mr. A. Wood — A curious Crustacean from Blackman's Bay. 



6. From Mr. Brand, Oatlands, per the Hon. J. Wbyte, Esq. — A foetal 



wallaby. 



7. From E,. C. Eead, Esq , New Norfolk — A native devil {Sarcophilus 



ursimis) with three young in pouch. 



8. From Mr. W. Pelham — A curious fish from beach at Kangaroo Point. 

 [This fish belongs to the Lophiidce, and is figured and described under 



the name of Chironectes politus in the Zoology of the Erebus and Terror 

 {Plate IX., 2^ci(/e 16.) Of the genus Chironectes Cuvier remarks ; — " These 

 tishes, from the peculiar conformation of their pectoral fins, can creep on 

 land almost like little quadrupeds. The pectorals, by reason of their 

 position, perform the office of hinder feet. They can live out of the water 

 for two or three days." 



9. From H. M. JBCull, Esq. — Shells and corallines from Warrnambool. 

 The Secretary, after referring to the visitation of caterpillars with which 



various parts of the colony were afflicted about six months ago, mentioned 

 that he had placed several of them under observation for the purpose of 

 determining their future development. He now brought under the notice 

 of the meeting the empty case of a chrysalis which formed on the 18th of 

 January, and a moth which was produced from it on the 14th of the 

 month following. The moth was apparently an Agrotis, and therefore the 

 of the same genus, but probably'- not the same species, as the one f Agrotis 

 vastatorj the caterpillar or larva of which was so destructive to the crops 

 and pastures of N. S. Wales in 1867. From the chrysalis of our cater- 

 pillar one observer (Mr. H. Nelson) has expressed his conviction that flies 

 have in some instances been produced. If this was the case it must have 

 been due to the parent fly depositing its ova in the chrysalis, the sub- 



