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AUnUST, 187.5. 

 The monthly ovenincr met-ting w.is held on Monday, the 9th August. 

 Hia Excellency F. A. Weld, Esq., I'rcsidont, in the chair. 



The Secretary hrouRht tinder notice the usual monthly returns, viz. : — 



1. Visitors to Museum during July, total 1375. 



2. Ditto to Gardens ditto, total 2772. 



3. Plants and seeds received at Gardens — From I?otanic Gardens, 



Christchurch, New Zealand, 40 plants. From Mr. J. Latham, 9 

 packets seeds, io varieties. Anemone and Ranunculus. 



4. Plants and seeds sent from Gardi^ns — To Messrs. Vilmorin, Andrieux 



and Co., France, one ditto. To Jlessrs Fardey and Co., France, 

 one ditto To Jules Cock and Scours, France, one ditto. ToJMotia. 

 Iluber. llyeres, France, one ditto. To Shepherd and Co., Sydney, 

 a small box of seeds. To the North China Branch Royal Asiatic 

 Society, Shanghai, one package of seeds. To the Botanic Gardens, 

 Queensland, one small box of plants and seeds. 

 6. Times of loafing, etc., of a few standard plants in Society's Gardens 

 during July. 



6. Books and periodicals received. 



7. Presentations to Museum and Library. 

 Atetcorologlcal liclunis. 



1. Ilobart Town— From F. Abbott, Esq , table for July. 



2. New Norfolk — From W. E. Shoobridi^e, E^q., ditto. 



3. Port Arthur — From J. Coverdale, Esq., ditto for June. 



4. Kent's Group — From the Blarine Board, tables for May, Juno, July. 

 6. Mount Nelson, from ditto. — Tahle for July. 



G. Sydney, from the Government Observer. — Printed tables for April. 

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



1. From Mr. Quinlan, Montpelier-street. — A Pouched Lamprey ^ffco^rj'a 



AUpnrti Gthr.; 



2. From Mr. Bealey. — A Pelican (Tchcamis conspkillatiia.) 



3. From J. R. Scott, Esq., RLH.A — Specimens of the stone implements 



of tbe Tasmanian Aborigines. An explanatory letter from Mr. 



Scott accompanying the presentatation was read. The following is 



an extract : — 



"It has long been desirable to fix upon a spot where the aborigines 



obtained their flint or stone implements. I am now able to fix upon two 



places, viz. — First, about ten chains immediately in front and to ttie 



north-east of the stone hut in Slocker's Bottom, County of Somerset, 



parish of Peel. 



"The second is about one mile more to the south-west, on Lot 443, on 

 a branch of Dismal Creek, running out of Stocker's Bottom. 



" These two places are about f-ix miles distant from the ]\Iacquarie 

 River, where I found the stones forwarded some years since, known as 

 the ' Mount Morriston' collection, and now in the Museum." 



On the presentation of tha Stone Implements, the Rev. Julian Woods 

 called attention to the extraordinary similarity of one of them to a spear- 

 head figured in the Geological Society's Journal some years previously. He 

 observed that probably the arguments based on the antiquity of such 

 relics might require modification, seeing that in this island the " stone 

 age" and "flint implements" belong to the present century. 



4. From F. Groom, Esq , Harefield, St. Mary's. An unusually fine 



specimen of the " Sharp-nosed Eel," measuring 2 feet o inches 

 in length. [It is believed that this fish has not yet been scientifi- 

 cally named and describ<5d. A specimen, however, was last year 

 forwarded by Mr. M. Allport to Dr. Gunther, ot the British 

 Museum, from whom informa'.ion relative to it will doubtless be re- 

 ceived in due course.] 



