EOYAL SOCIETY. 



MARCH, 1871. 



A montlily evening meeting of the Society was held on Tuesday 

 the 14th March; Morton Allport, Esq., in the chair. 



The following gentlemen, who had been previously nominated by 

 the Council, were, after a ballot, declared to be duly elected as Fellows 

 of the Society :— Mr. P. Irvine, Hobart Town ; Mr. Jamieson, Hojoart 

 Town ; Mr. J. Rule, Bellerive, Kangaroo Point ; Mr. J. Milward, 

 Hobart Town ; Mr. John Macfarlane, Hobart To^ii ; Mr. Jamea 

 Macfarlane, Hobart Town. » 



The Secretary laid on the table the following returns : — 



1. Visitors to Museum during January and February, 1788. 



2. Ditto Gardens ditto, 4366. 



3. Plants, &c. , sent from Gardens. 



4. Tench ditto. 



5. Books and periodicals received. 



6. Presentations to Museum. 

 Meteorological Eeturns : — 



1. Hobart Town, from F. Abbott, Esq., tables for January and 



February. 



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



3. Swansea, from Dr. Story, ditto. 



4. Westbury, from C. Belstead, Esq., ditto. 



6. New Zealand, from the Government, ditto for 1869, and October, 

 November, and December, 1870. 



6. Sydney, from H, C. Russell, Esq., Government astronomer, table 



for December. 



7. Melbourne, from R. EUery, Esq., tables for December, 1870, and 



January, 1871. 



"Notes on the Meteorology and Mortality of the Hobart Town registra- 

 tion district for March, 1871," by Dr. E. Swarbreck Hall. 



The presentations to the Museum were as follow : — 



1. From L. S. Travers, Esq., Collection of specimens illustrative of 



the Carboniferous system of New South Wales, with notes by 

 W. Keene, Esq., F.G.S. 



2. From Captain WiUiams, of the American whaler Osmanli, a 



collection of Shells from Fiji, also a War Club from the same 

 place. 



3. From Mr. W. E. Baynton, Land Shells from Brown's River. 



4. From Mr. J. Buckland, Skin of Monitor Lizard. 



5. From Master Hull, Nest and eggs of Honey Eater, 



6. From Jas. Scott, Esq. , M.H.A., nine stone imislements made by 



aborigines of Tasmania, from Macquarie River (with a note). 



7. From Mr. T. B. Handley, a Harj)oon, much twisted, found in a 



nine tun whale captured off Macquarie Harbour by Captain Smith, 

 of the Maid of Erin. 



8. From Mr. Rowntree, polished specimen of Native Myrtle (Fagus 



CunninghamiiJ. 



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