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JULY, 1875. 



The monthly evening meeting of the society was hold on Tuesday, 

 13th July. A large number of Fellows were present ; His Excellency 

 the Governor in the chair. 



J. K. Clark, Esq., who had previously been nominated by the Council, 

 •was ballotted for and declared duly elected as a Fellow of the Society. 



The Secretary (Dr. Agnew) brought under notice the following re- 

 turns, etc., for the past month : — 



1. Visitors to Museum, 1010. 



2. Ditto to Gardens, 200G. 



3. Plants received at Society's Gardens— From His Excellency, 



F. A. Weld, Esq., 15 packets seeds of Couifer.ie ; 3 ditto (various). 

 From Mr. Geo. Brunniug, St. Kilda, Melbourne, 80 plants. 

 From A. Simsou, Esq., plants of Todea barbara and jD'trk.wnla 

 dubia, from the vicinity of George's Bay. From Rev. W. W. 

 Spicer, plants of various Sedums. 



4. Plants and Seeds sent from Gardens— To Mr. G. Brunning, St. 



Kilda, 1 case plants (various). To Royal Gardens, Kew, 1 packet 

 seed of Waratah ( Tdopea truncata). To Mr. Wm. Bull, London, 

 1 packet ditto. 



5. Plants supplied fordecoration of public places— To Brickfields Dep6t, 



60 plants. To Memorial Church, Elizabeth-street, 30 plants. 

 To the Cornelian Bay Cemetery, 198 plants. For Government 

 House grounds, 20 plants. 

 C. Time of leafing, flowering, etc., of a few standard plants in 

 Society's Gardens during June. 



7. Book and periodicals received. 



8. Presentations to jNIuseum and library. 

 Meteorological Tables : — 



1. Hobart Town, from F. Abbott, Esq. — Table and summary for 



June. 



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



3. Mount Nelson, from the Hobart Town Marine Board. — Ditto. 



4. Swan Island, from Ditto. — Tables for April and May. 



5. Port Arthur, from J. Coverdale, Esq. — Table for May. 



6. From Government Observatory, Melbourne. — Printed tables for 



J anuary. 



7. Wellington, New Zealand, from Dr. Hector. — Tables for February, 



March, and April. Abstracts of observations from various sta- 

 tions in New Zealand, for January, February, and March. 



8. Sydney, from Government Observer. — Printed Tables for January, 



February, and March. 

 The presentations to the Museum were as follows : — 



1. From His Excellency the Governor. — Twenty-four named specimens 



of wood from Western Australia, squared and polished. A 

 Japanese mirror, in case. Tusks and ear-bones of Dugong 

 ( Halicore dugong). 



2. From Master J. C. Young. — Two mats from Fiji, originally be- 



longing to King Thakobau. A basket made by a Fijian Chief. 

 The first copy of the earliest newspaper struck off in Fiji. An 

 East Indian hunting knife. Shells ( Littorina sp.) from Great 

 Barrier Reef. 



3. From Mr. Edwin Luckman, Sorell. — An Albino Opossum 



(Phalangesta ftdiginosa). Two Brush Wattle Birds (Anthochcera 

 mellivora). Three specimena of the White-fronted Epthianura 

 (Epthianura albifrons ). 



4. From R. C. Read, Esq.— Two specimens olAntichinus alhlpes. 



