XVII. 



The Cliainiian said that the Jloyal Society ot {>i<!at liiil- 

 ain was about to colehrato its 2-j()tli anniversary, and the Jioyal 

 Society of 'J'asniania had l>eeji invited to send one of its niem- 

 bers to be prt\sent. It was thon<:;ht that, as J)r. Sprott was 

 going to Enghind, lie would represent th(> Society whih^ th(>re, 

 and it was also thought that an addiess of congratuhition 

 should bo sent. At last meeting of the council a sulj-coniniit- 

 tee was appointed to draw up tiie address, whi<;h would be 

 signed by His Excellency the (jovernor, as president of the 

 Society, and by himself, as chairman of the council. The ad- 

 dress would l>e then forwarded to England to be j) resented at 

 the forthcoming m<^eting, in July. 



Mr. J. A. Johnson then read th(> address which had hvvn 

 drawn up, which was approvi'd of by the meeting. 



JUNE 10, 1912. 



The mo]ithly meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania was 

 held at the Alusi-um, when, in the absence of the 

 president, J)r. Clarke occu])icd the chair. 



The following new niembers were unanimously elected: — 

 Mrs. R. C. Patterson, Miss Mary K. McAllister, Messrs. George 

 W. Smith, and L. L. Waterlviuse. 



The secretary read extracts from a paper by Mr. "SV. L, 

 May, of Forest Hill, Sandford, on "Some new additions to the 

 Tasmanian Mollusca." The paper described 18 species new to 

 the Tasmanian list, mo.st of which had been described by various 

 authors from Australian ard New Zealand souices. The occur- 

 rence of three more New Zealand sptK-ies was interesting, but 

 still more so was that of a large form of pecten (scallop), of 

 vhich a living specimen was dredged up in 100 fathoms off 

 Cape Pillar. It had previously been described from fossil speci- 

 mens by the late Professor Tate. The paper also described 

 eight species which appeared to be new to science, which were 

 the results of various dredging expeditions. ITiey did not pre- 

 .sent any great novelty when compared with the previously 

 known fauna. 



MIGRATORY BIRDS. 



The secretary (Mr. R. Hall) exhibited a number of bird 

 specimens, including several species of plovers and curlews. He 

 pointed out that while there was a species of plover in Aus- 

 tralia — the golden plover, which went north in winter, and 

 nested on the Siberian Tundra — there was a European plover 

 very closely allied to this, which nested in the north of Siberia, 

 and went south-westward through Europe, and on to South 

 Africa. The tracks of the two species very rarely crossed. 

 There was a third species in America, which migrated north and 

 south in the same way. The gray plover was a species which 

 was found practically all over the world ; it w as a thorough 

 globe-trotter. Of the English dottrell, of which he showed a 

 specimen, a specimen had been obtained near Derby, in north- 



