JUNE, 1880. 



The monthly eveAing meeting of the Society was held on Tuesday, Sth 

 June. Mr. C. H. G^rant in the chair. 



The Secretary (Dr. Agnew) brought forward the usual returns for the 

 past month, viz. : — 



1. No. of Visitors to Museum— On Sundays, 794; on week days, 682; 



total, 1,476. 



2. Ditto to Gardens, 3,067. 



3. Books and Periodicals received. 



4. Presentations to Museum. 



Meteorological JRetnrns. — 



From the Marine Board. Tables from Mount Nelson for May, and 

 South Bruni Lighthouse for April. 



Keturn showing time of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few 

 standard plants in the Botanic Gardens during May : — 



12th. First Medlar (Nottingham), ripe. 



18th. Photinia serrulata, commencing to flower. 



20th. Diosma alba, ditto. 



28th. Spircea pruni/oUa, ditto. 



29th. Aila.nthus glandulosa, leaves all shed. 



F. Abbott, Jun., Supt. 

 The presentations to the Museum were as follows : — 



1. From Mr. James Mackey. — Two specimens of the so-called 



" Vegetable Caterpillar " (Cordkeps Rohertsii), from New Zealand. 



2. From Mr. McShane, Jerusalem. — The cast skin of a large Black 



Snake ( Hoplocephalus curtus). 



5. From Hon. James Maclanachan, Tunbridge. — An Egyptian Goose 



(Chenalopex Egyptiaca). 



4. From Mr. J. C. Bethune, Dunrobin. — Specimen of Native Tiger 



( Thyladnus cynocephalus). 



5. From Miss Wickes, Cherry Tree Opening. — A piece of the outer 



bark of the White Gum with curious markings resembling lace- 

 work patterns. 



6. From Mr. G. F. Lovett. — Two fossils (Pecten latkostatus and Ostrea 



lidarki), from Shakespeare's Clifi", coast road to Napier, New 

 Zealand. 



The usual periodicals having been laid on the table, special attention 

 was directed to the very numerous presentations to the library from 

 various learned bodies, embracing the Zoological Society of London, the 

 Geological Society, the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, the Koyal 

 Geographical Society, the British Association, the Linnean Society, the 

 Eoyal Astronomical Society, the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders 

 in Scotland, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the Academy of 

 Sciences, Munich, and the Entomological Society of Belgium. Valaable 

 contributioDS of books from the British Museum, the Army Medical 

 Department, United States j and the National Observatory, Cordoba, 

 were also brought under notice. 



The Secretary read a paper by Baron von Mueller on some Tasmanian 

 plants. In reference to one of these, Verbena officinalis, the writer says : — 

 "The discovery of the medicinal Vervain in Tasmania, though no 

 unexpected, is of double interest, inasmuch as this plant adds a Natura 

 Order to the Flora of the island. This Verbena is rather widely, but no 

 copiously, distributed through South-eastern Australia, but not yet foun^j 



