XXVll 



AUGUST, 1902. 



The montlily meeting of the Eoyal 

 Society of Tasmania was held on t'he 12th 

 of Aug-ust lat the Museum. His Excellency 

 the Governor, Sir Arthur Havelock, pre- 

 Siidecl. Th.ere was a large attendance of 

 members. 



New Members. 



Mr. W. M. Hardy and Mr. W. A. Thorpe 

 were elected members of the society. 



Queensland Flora. 



A letter was received fro-m the Under- 

 Secretary for Queensland, acknowledging 

 receipt of a letter from this society, for- 

 warding a resolution in which regret was 

 expressed at the decision to dispense with 

 the services of Mr. F. M. Bailey, CoJonial 

 Botanist of Queensland, and urging that 

 he be retained till the completion of his 

 work on Queensland flora, on w'hich he was 

 now engaged. In reply, the society was 

 informed that the Queensland Govern- 

 ment had already made arrangements for 

 continuing Mr. Bailey's services for six 

 months from the 1st inst., in order that 

 he might be able to complete the work in 

 question. 



North Great Lake. 



Colonel Legge read a letter from Police 

 Trooper Archer, at North Great Lake, 

 stating that they had expeTienced no very 

 severe frosts during the month of July, 

 and the lakes, with the exception of Pine 

 Lake, which was covered with four or five 

 inches, had been remarkably free from 

 ice. The only birds to be seen on the 

 Great Lake now were the gulls. They ap- 

 peared to bo quite as plentiful as they 

 were in th,e summer. The grey thrush 

 was there all the winter, but not lo'lenti- 

 ful; also a few white magpies and wattle- 

 birds. Ground larks were plentiful, and 

 yellow-throated honey-eaters were no't 

 scarce. There were also birtcher-birds, 

 robins, and emu wrens. He had not 

 noticed the white liawk up there. He had 

 noticed the brown hawk in the spring, 

 flying along the edge of the lake and 

 round the islands, apparently looking for 

 eggs and water fowl. At present, most 

 of the days were bleak and sunless, and 

 the winds unpleasantly cold. During July 

 the minimum temperature was 19deg. on 

 the 30th, and tlie maximum 'todeg. on the 

 24th; mean temperature for the month, 

 J4de5r. 



Max. and Min. Temperature at Greafc 



Lake, North, during July, 1902 : — 



Date. Temperature. 



1902. Max. ^lin. 



.July 1 43 26 



2 41 30 



3 43.5 36 



4 38 33 



5 40 31 



6 36 25 



7 34 22 



8 35 23 



9 37.5 29 



10 39 30 



11 39.5 30 



12 38 24 



13 34 23 



14 37.5 23 



15 38 23 



16 37 28 



17 38 29 



18 42 32 



19 44 28 



20 43 31 



21 44 32 



22 39 26.5 



23 40 28 



24 48 28.5 



25 38 22.5 



26 44 33 



27 40 34 



28 42.5 35 



29 41.5 31.5 



30 39 19 



31 40 31 

 Mean for month 34 



Governor Denison. 



Tlie Secretary read the following letter 

 from Mr. H. E. Smith: — "I have very 

 great pleasure in presenting to the Royal 

 Society of Tasmania a splendid engraving, 

 a full length portrait of the late Sir W'm. 

 Thos. Denison, who was Governor of this 

 colony from January 28, 1847, to January, 

 8, 1855, as a toke*n of esteem and affection 

 in which he was held by me." Mr. Smith, 

 the secretary said, gave a very interesting 

 account of Sir Wm. Denison, and it was 

 decided that the valuable notes furnished 

 by Mr. Smith should be forwarded to the 

 Historical section of the Eoyal Society of 

 Tasmania. 



Tasimanian Forestry. 



The adjourned discussion on Tasmanian 

 forestry took place. 



Colonel Legge made some observations, 

 in the course of which he expressed a 

 desire to see a Forest Conservancy De- 

 partment created in this State, and ex- 

 pressed his regret at the extent to which 

 '^ringing" was indiscriminately practised 

 in Tasmania. 



