tJu' (| II lotion of o'ta'bHshinp; a Scliool of 

 For('>trv ami Agji-icu;tiire. in Tasmania. 

 The writt r offered nunii^roiis dotaili (I 

 6*U4igi'st ioivs with respect to nuarkoting 

 numerous pnoduct^, from apples to tim- 

 ber. The State couM eiasi'y grow enor- 

 mous quantities of those timbrrs which 

 hhe wius niow importing;, equal to one- 

 third of her export? of timber, nnd paid 

 two-thirds more for it. 



Di.scu«fiion on the paper wa« postponed 

 till the next meeting. 



A New ^i^h. 



Mr. R. M. Johneton tab\d a de- 

 scription of a new species of Goby, 

 Avhich hi> named in honour of Mr. Geo. 

 Hinsbv. \\ ho has pre're/ited man.y speci- 

 mens to the Museum, "Gobiu:- hiusbyi:" 

 Mr. .lohnston said : There is no 

 doubt that many more Oi 'the 

 smaller type's of our marine and 

 fresh wat?r fishes have a? yet escap- 

 ed thtj notice of ichthyologists, and our 

 amateur sportsmen might do good service 

 in preserving and forwarding to the 

 Tasdnanian Museum aU forms of fishes 

 which may .seem to them to be' new^ or 

 in any way strange in ap'pearanice. 



The meeting then terminar-'d. 



Li»t of books and magazine? piesented 

 to the Royal Society of Tasma;i::-i du.ing 

 the niontii of May,"^ 1902: — 



Transactions ot the Koyal Du'jlin So- 

 ciety, Parts VIII. to XII [. 



Proceediugs of the Koyal Dublin So- 

 ciety, Parts II. to IV. 



Ecoaomic proceedings of the Royal 

 Dublin Society, Vol. I., Pa:t II. 



Menioiis and proceedings ot the Man- 

 chester Philosophical Soeiet}*. Vol. 46. 

 Parts III. and iV. 1901-2. 



Atti della iieale Academia dei Lince;, 

 Kg ma. 



A list of the best books i elating 

 to Dutch East India, made up in com- 

 memoration of the third centeaary ci ths 

 foundation of the E«,st India Co., Mai eh 

 20, \m2. By Martmius Nijhoff. 



Fi'oni Shanghai to Bhamc. iiy E. L. 

 Jack, LL.D. 



Proceedings of the Eoval Socieiy of 

 England. Vol. LXIX. No. 457. 



Boletim da Sociedade de Geographia 

 de Lisbon. 



Journal of the Society of Arts. 



Journal of Agriculture of Victoiia. 



Proceedings of the Washington Aca- 

 demj' of Sciences, (a) Papers f.om the 

 iiopkins Staadford Galapagos Expedi- 



tion, 1898-9. lb) Vri. Entomoingical i e- 

 sulls. Aiachidna. iiy N. J3ank-. (c) Pa- 

 pei-s from the llairiman, Alaska Expedi- 

 tion. XXVIi. Apterygota, by J. W. 

 Eolscai. (di Organ 'satioii and Membei- 

 ship of tlie VVajliington Academy of 

 Science. 



The Scollisli Geogiaphic.^l Magazines, 

 current numbeis. 



The Queensland Flora. Vols. I. to V. 

 By F. M. Bailey, F.L.S., Government Bo- 

 tanist ot (Queensland. 

 Tlie I-'eriodieal. By ii. Froude. 

 Liizury dei- Mathematisch Naturwia- 

 senschiaftlichen. 



The Victorian Xaturalist. Vol. XIX. 

 ^'o. 1. May. 1902. 



Annual report of the Colonial Labo- 

 ratory of New Zealand. 



Transactions of the Koyal Iiish Aca- 

 demy, (a) Vol. XXXI. Part XII. Fur- 

 ther developments of the Geometrical 

 Theory of Six Screws; by Sir Kobert 

 Ball, 'F.U.S., LL.D. ib. Notes on the 

 High Crosses of Mocne Drumcliff, Ter- 

 monfechhin, and Kidamery; i)y the late 

 Miss Margaret Stokes, (c; The Ancient 

 Forts of Ireland, being a contribution 

 to\yards our knowledge of their types, 

 afhnities, and structural features; by 

 T. J. Westropp, M.A. (d' Vol. XXXIl. 

 The .interpretation of a Quaternion, as a 

 point of symbol. Part "il. Quaternion 

 Arrays; by C. J. Joly, M.A., Koyal As- 

 tronomer of Ireland. 



Journal of the Koyal Mioroscopical So- 

 ciety of London. Pare II. April. 1902. 



Annals of the South African Museum. 

 Vols. li. and III. 



Bulletin of the Natural History Sooie- 

 of New Brunswick. 



The Koval Geographical Journal, Lon- 

 don, April 1902. 



Journal of the Scottish Meteorological 

 Society (third series). 



Statistics of the Colon v of New Zea- 

 land for the rear 1901. Part III.— T;ade 

 and inte: change. 



North Queensland Ethnography, Bul- 

 letin 4. March, 1902. "Games, Sports, 

 and Amusements/' by Dr. W. E. Koth. 

 The Kecord of the Mines of Soath Aus- 

 tralia, Taicoola, and the North-Western 

 district, with plans by H. Y. L. Brown, 

 F.G.S.. Government Geologist. 



Kspo-rt of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science held at Glas- 

 gow, September, 1901. iBound.) 



Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of 

 New South Wales. Part iV. Vol. 

 XXVI. No. 104. 



Alonthly Notices of the Koyal Astro- 

 nomical Society. \'^ol. LXIi. No. 5, 

 March. 1902. 



Boletim Mensal do Observatorio, Rio 

 ty of New Brunswick. 



Boletin del lustitutio de Geologico^ 

 Mexico. 



