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JUNE, 1875. 



The monthly evening meeting of the Society was held on Tuesday, 

 the 8th June. There was an unusually large number of the Fellows 

 present. The chair was occupied by His Excellency the Governor, 

 as President of the Society. 



Messrs. W. J. J, Keynolds and F. S. Edgar, who had previously been 

 nominated by the C'ouncil, were ballotted for and declared duly elected 

 as Fellows of the Society. 



The Hex. Secketauy (Dr. Agnew) brought under notice the usual 

 monthly returns, viz. : — 



1. Visitors to Museum during May, 1,017. 



2. Visitors to Gardens ditto, 2, .'MO. 



3. Plants and seeds scut from Gardens : — To Mons. A. Verschaffet, 



Ghent, Belgium, 12 tree ferns. To Dobroyd Nursery, Ashlield, 

 Sydney, one package of plants. Packages of seeds were for- 

 warded to Mr. C. F. Creswell ; Mr. B. E. Heyne, Adelaide ; 

 Baron von Mueller ; the Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 United States ; the Boyal Gardens, Kew, England ; Mr. W. 

 Bull, London ; the Acclimatisation Society of Queensland ; 

 Mr. C. HoUinsdale, Mr. Latham, and Colonel Crawford. 



4. Plants and seeds received at Gardens : — From Baron F. von 



Mueller, seeds of l^accbihim macrocarpitm, and lihus coriaria. 



From the Department of Agriculture, Washington, four packets 



of seeds. From Colonel Crawford, four packets of seeds of 



conifer:^; from India. From Mr. E. B. Heyne, Adelaide, 200 



packets seeds. From Mr. C. HoUinsdale, 21 packets seeds. 



From Mr. T. Johnston, seeds of five species of Palms. From 



Botanic Gardens, Christchurch, New Zealand, two cases of plants. 



Through detention in transit, all the latter had perished. 



[His Excellency remarked he had recently received a number of 



plants, many of them of great value, from New Zealand. After re- 



eerving a few for the Gardens at Government House, he would be 



happy to present the remainder to the Society's Gardens.] 



5. Time of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few stajidard plants 



in the Botanic Gardens. 



6. Books and periodicals received. 



7. Presentations to Museum and Library. 

 Mtteorolo'jical Returns — 



L Hobart Town, from F. Abbott, Esq.— Table for May. 



2. New Norfolk, from W. E. Shoobridge, Esq. — Ditto. 



3. Mount Nelson, from Marine Board. — Ditto. 



4. Si'dney, N.S.W., from the Government Observatory, printed 



tables for December, 1874. — Results of observations made during 

 the year 1873. 

 The presentations to the Museum and Library were as follows : — 



1. FiomMr. B. II. Dyer, Battery Point. — A Hooded Dottrelll'cZif/iaZiies 



monacha), shot at Sandy Bay. 



2. From Mr. D. Chisholm. — Casts of Roots of Trees, from the Five- 



Mile Beach, Forcett. 



3. From G. Bennett, Esq., M.D., F.Z.S., Sydney. — A specimen of a 



CariouaVird (Diduiiculux sfrijiroMris), from the Samoan Islands. 

 A specimen of the Frilled Lizard (Chlami/dosaiinis KuKjii). 'I'wo 

 specimens of the very beautiful Sponge, known as "Venus' 

 Flower Basket " (EuplecicUa anper^jiUum), from the China Seas. 



[This remarkable object, certainly one of the most beautiful in the 

 whole range of Natural History, was examined with great interest by 

 all present. The secretary mentioned that Dr. Bennett had informed 



