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AUGUST, 1880. 



The monthly evening noeeting of the Society was held on Monday, the- 

 9th August, Mr. James Barnard, V.P., in the chair. 



Mr. William Gordon Maddox, M.R.C.S., Eng., and Mr. William 

 Mason, M.R.C.S., Eng., who had previously been nominated by the 

 Council, were balloted for, and declared duly elected as Fellows of the 

 Society. 



The Ihon. secretary, Dr. Agnew, brought forward the usual returns, 

 viz. : — 



1. No. of visitors to Gardens during June, 3,400 ; July, 3,880. 



2. Plants and seeds sent from Gardens. 



3. No. of visitors to Museum, June, on Sundays, 938; on week days, 



993; total, 1,931. July, on Sundays, 789 ; on week days, 1,046 ; 

 total, 1,835. 



4. Books and periodicals received. 



5. Presentations to Museum. 



Meteorological tables, from the Marine Board, Bruni Island, for May; 

 Mt. Nelson, for June and July. 



Times of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few standard plants in the 

 Botanic Gardens, during June and July, 1880 : — 

 June 10. Iris alata in flower. 



20. Madaura aurantlaca shedding seed. 



22. Privet shedding leaves. 



24. Lachanalla rosea in flower. 



28. Cahjcanthus ^jrcecox do. 



30. Pyrus japonka commencing to flower. 



,, Crocus vernus in full flower. 

 July 8. Arhutus unedo commencing to flower. 



10. Garrya elliptica do. 



18. White mulberry commencing to break. 



20. Almond commencing to break. 



21. Cytisus leucanthus commencing to flower. 

 30. Yellow crocus do. 



The presentations to the Museum were as follows: — 



1. From C. E. Barnard, Esq., M.D.— A collection of Fossils and 



Minerals, from Gulgong, New South Wales. 



2. From Mr. E. P. Ramsay, Australian Museum, Sydney. — A photo- 



graph of a Sword Fish, caught near Sydney. (The fish from which 

 this was taken measured 14ft. in length.) 



3. From Mr. W. R. Bell.— Specimens of Argentiferous Galena, with 



Carbonate of Iron, from the '* Silver-Lead lead," Mount Bischoflf. 



4. From Mr. T. Young.— Specimens of Upper Palseozoic Fossils from 



North-West Bay. 



5. From Mr. C. Parsons. — Ditto from Lauriston, near Bothwell. 



6. From Mr. T. Hainsworth.— Specimens of Plant impressions from the 



Mersey Coal Measures. [In reference to one of the Fern 

 impressions in this presentation, Mr. Stephens remarked that in a 

 paper, read before the Society in 1873, he had mentioned his 

 discovery of a solitary specimen of Glossopteris Browiimia at the 

 Mersey several years previously, adding that " it was strange that 

 the discovery of this fern should have been made only by a passing 

 traveller, with a few minutes at his disposal." He (Mr. Stephens), 

 believed that most of the Fellows were aware of the interest 

 attaching to the presence of this fern in coal measures below 

 Marine PaltGozoic strata ; and it was evident that there would* 

 in future be no difiBculty in demonstrating its existence even to- 

 the most incredulous.] 



