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do fto ; and I beg to thank vou for per- 

 mitting me to become one of your hon- 

 orary mrmbers, — I remain, gentlemen, 

 yours .sincerely, H. H. Tasmania. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



Visit to British Columbia. 



Mr. Alex. Morton gave an interesting 

 and instructive account of his recent 

 visit to British Columbia to obtain sal- 

 mon ova for the Tasmanian FisJieries 

 Commissioners, and exhibited lantern 

 view> of scenes in Honolulu, Victoria 

 City, Vancouver, and other parts of 

 Brici.sh Columbia. He advised travel- 

 lers from Australia to England to go by 

 wav of Canada, because they would hear 

 nothing the whole way but the English 

 language. He mentioned that Hono- 

 lulu was the only place in the world 

 where the English sovereign was below 

 par. There, there were no barmaids, 

 the hotels closed at 11 p.m. on week 

 days, and were closed all day on Sun- 

 days. Education was compulsory, and 

 among the Hawaiians there was not 

 a man. woman, or child (of age 

 to leave school), who could not read 

 and write. There were five daily 

 new.spapers in Honolulu. Passengers 

 going to the United States had to an- 

 swer 21 questions put to them on board 

 shin before they landed. He read these, 

 which were of a very inquisitive kind, 

 and sometimes very amusing. One of 

 them was "are you a polygamist?" and 

 he heard this put to a lady, who had 

 just stated in. answer to another ques- 

 tion that she was ''single." Some of 

 the ladies were very indignant at the 

 que.stions. Victoria City, the capital of 

 British Columbia, was the first city to 

 adopt the electric tramcar. 



Mr. J. W. Beat tie (for the Bishop of 

 Tasmania) exhibited two lantern pic- 

 tures — Barn Bluff and The Cradle ; and 

 Barn Bluff from The GradU. 



A cordial vote of thanks was passed 

 to the authors of papers. 



FORTY' EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



The annual meeting of tbe Royal So- 

 ciety of Tasmania wa® hedcl at the so- 

 ciety's rooms on Monday eveniuof, April 

 2l8t. Mr. R. M. Johnston, F.S.S., vice- 

 president, presiding. 



Corresponding Members. 



The following gemtlemen, who durdng 

 the meeting of the Australasian Aeeocia- 

 iion for the Advancenieut of Science, were 

 presidents of the several sections, were 

 elected corresponding members of the 

 society: — Messrs. T. A. Coghlan, F.S.S., 

 Government Statistician of New South 

 Wales; Professor A. Pollock, B.Sc. Syd- 

 ney University; W . R. Greig-Smith, 

 M.Sc.. Macleay — Bacteriologist. Linnsean 

 Society, Sydney; Professor Mica-Smith, 

 B. Sc, School of Mines, Ballarat;Mr. T. S. 

 Hall, M.A,, University, Melbourne; Sir 

 Thos. Fitzgerald, K.C.M.G., and Mr. 

 Percy Oakden, A.R.I.B.A., Melbourne; 

 Dr. W. E. Roth, Chief Protector of the 

 Queensland Aborigines; Professor W. B. 

 Benbam, D.Sc, M.A.. Otaigo Institute, 

 Dunedin; and' Professor Arnold-Wall, 

 M.A., Canterbury Institute, Christchurch, 

 New Zealand; R. W. Chapman, M.A., 

 B.C.E., University, Adel'aide. 



New Fellows. 

 Messrs. Chas. Hudson (General Mama- 

 ger of the Tasmanian Railway?), T. D. Mc- 

 Ewan Kay. B.A., and .1. E. Philip were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



Annual Report. 



The Secretary (Mr. Alex. Morton) read 

 the following annual report. — 



The Council of the Royal Society have 

 pleasure in submitting the following re- 

 port for the year 1901, and i egret I'hat, 

 owing to the sessions of the As;ociat'oii 

 for the advancement of Science and the 

 International Medical Congress, it was 

 mot found possible to have tlie annual 

 meeting of this society earlier in the year. 



Meetings. — There have been eight meet- 

 ings during the session, all of wbich were 

 of interest, particularly those in which 

 the timber industrj'^ and forestry of Tas- 

 mania were discussed. At tbe filst meet- 

 ing, presided over by His Excellency Sir 

 John Dodds, AdministratoT, a paper was 

 read on "Timber Couservation" by Mr. 

 W. Heyu, a timber expert, then on a 

 visit to Tasmania, which introduced the 

 subject, and ws.'S followed by a number 

 of papers dealing with the general and 

 important subject of the preseTvation of 

 our natmafl woods, and the cuiltiration 

 of forests, as a national work, by Messrs. 

 L. Rod way, A. Miault, and A. 0. Greene. 

 Papers on "Geology'" amd "Mineralogy" 

 were contributed during the session by 

 Messrs. R. M. Johnston, Petterd. Twelve- 

 trees, and Professor Hogg. A paper by 

 Mr. J. W. Beattie "On a Trip to the Barn 

 Bluff,'" illustiiated by numerous lantern 

 slides, was also read. 



