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The author said he had recently received 

 from the Imperi'al Natural History 

 Museum of Vieniifa, a type speeimeu 

 of Eucalyptus Linearis, Dehnhardt, 

 which has not been seen either 

 by Bentham or Mueller. Usually a 

 Mount Wellington, Tasmania, emooth- 

 barked tree, closely related to E. 

 amygdalina, Labill, is referred to Dehn- 

 iiardt's species, which was described from 

 a European seedling in 1829. The author 

 describes the type, and expresses the 

 opinion that the precise position of the 

 plant described by Dehnhardt requires 

 yet to be determined by Tasmauian 

 botanists. 



Mr. A. M. Lea, F.E.S., Government En- 

 tomologist, contributed a paper, entitled, 

 "Notes on some remarkable Tasmanian 

 Invertebrates.'' The writer said, under 

 the above heading, he proposed from time 

 to time to give notes on some remarkable 

 Tasmanian insects, and probably other 

 invertebrate forms of iife. The notes, 

 whenever possible, would be illustrated 

 with sketches. The present description 

 deals with one of the "Walking Stick'' in- 

 sects, being the first official record 9f th'^ 

 occurrence of the remarkable famiiy of 

 Phasmidse in Tasmania. The specimen 

 was found at Burnie, and presentel to the- 

 Tasmanian Museum by Mi&s Dora Shoo- 

 oridge, and will be known as Acrophylla 

 ta?maniensis. 



The Great Lake. 



Colonel Legge furnished the maximum 

 and minimum temperature at the north 

 end of the Great Lake for the mcnth of 

 June, 1902. compiled by Mr. F. H. 

 Archer, Police Station, ^\orth Gr.eiat Lake. 

 The maximum was 43 degrees on the 3id, 

 5t:h and 2-lth, and the minimum 15 de- 

 grees, on the 2&bh. The me^.n tempera- 

 ture for the monLh was 35 degrees. 



Forest Conservation. 

 A discussion took place on Mr. W. 

 Heyn's and Mr. C. B. Target's paper on 

 Forest Conservation. 



Mr. L. Bodway spoke upon tiie papers 

 at considerable length. Spe.aking of the 

 *apple trade, he advocated the leglstration 

 of brands by tihe Government, and the 

 publication in pamphlet -rom of results 

 of sales. Otherwise he thought tihe in- 

 dustry would be able to take care of it- 

 self. The timber trade po'ssessed greater 

 difficulties, and to do much for it, the Go- 

 vernment would have to take the wlioue 

 management of il. But the Govern n-mt 

 might inquire if there was a sufficient 

 quantity of timber to warnant the going 

 in for a large export trade, and if thore 

 was. it would be within their provi.ice to 

 find markets. It was hardly possi})le to 



establish .an a.gncaltaTal college in Tas- 

 mania at present, but there were such es- 

 tablishments already in Victoria, South 

 Australia, and New South Wales, and 

 scholarships in one of those colleges might 

 be founded here. If, then, the sciiolarB 

 were numerous enough, we might find ic 

 worth while to establish a college of our 

 ovyn. Referring to Mr. Target's paper, he 

 said tihat the oak in Tasm.ania had not 

 been a succevs-s. There was a gre'at deal to 

 be done in planting stringy bark, which 

 grew verj-^ rapidly. Button-grass plains 

 were poverty-stricken — you got a foot of 

 soil, and then came gravel. 



Mr. A. 0. Green said that he always 

 compared this country with Norway: Nor- 

 way, like Tasmania, is a poor country. It 

 is mountainous, it has a broken coast 

 line, it is largely covered with forests, but 

 there line similarity ends. The forests 

 of Norway produce small trees, not more 

 than a foot to eighteen inches in diameter, 

 and from which a plank cannot be ob- 

 tained wider than nine inches, or longer 

 than ten or twelve feet; and .yet the Nor- 

 wegians so prepare and classify their tim- 

 ber for market that it has a' staple value 

 throughout the civilised world, and is 

 sent everywhere, including Tasmania — 

 and the country reaps a profit of about a 

 million pounds annually. Tasmania on 

 the other hand, with her magnificent for- 

 ests from want of the system and care 

 that make the Norwegian industry so suc- 

 cessful, reaps a merely nomiiial benefit 

 from her much more valuable forests. Mr. 

 Heyn^s remedy for this state of affairs, 

 summed up in one word, was education, 

 and with this in general terms he fully 

 agreed. Tasmanians who should know 

 better may be found, who will lun down 

 Tasmanian timbers as worthless, wherea^s, 

 if properly prepared for market, they are 

 seconcl to none in the world for the pur- 

 poses for which the.y are suited. Again, 

 people may be found in Tasmania who 

 will stigmatise the science of forestry as 

 a fad, and even in the present day may be 

 found Tasmanians who will deride educa- 

 tion, as applied to timber. Mr. Target 

 had shown, very forcibly, the good that 

 forests do to a country from simo'.j^ ex- 

 isting. He went on to show that they pro- 

 fit several countries to the exteat .">f up- 

 wards of a million per annum, yrhe:'i 

 treated on sound commercial principles, 

 and further pointed out how, by system- 

 atic planting, barren and profitless 

 stretches of country might be profitably 

 improved. There is no what is termed 

 ■ Jiieory" about this. Round our coasts 

 there are plenty of places where oixr good 

 land is being overwhelmed by the sand 

 blown in from the sea ; exactly the samte 

 thing has been overcome on the shores of 

 the Bay of Biscay by planting pine trees. 

 In the Bay of Biscay, not only lias the 



