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Queensland grasses might, perhaps, be acted on, and lead to the intro- 

 dviction of some of them to our own pastures. The fact of these grasses 

 growing side by side in Queensland, would argue that they would do 

 equally well in Tasmania. Some of those with very deep roots might be 

 valuable as feed in summer time, when the shallow-rooted species were 

 burned up and destroyed by the heat. 



Mr. M. Allport, in moving the usual vote of thanks for the papers and 

 presentations, said that after the remai'ks of his Lordship, he (the mover) 

 need not impress upon the meeting the value of the papers read, or the 

 desirability of publishing them. But with regard to the presentations to 

 the Museum, one called for special mention ; namely, the presentation of 

 time and skill by the Rev. W. W. Spicer, expended in the arranging our 

 heretofore neglected botanical specimens. The society has been most 

 fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Spicer in this direction ; while the 

 Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods has been devoting himself to our fossils and 

 shells ; thus rendering these collections of real service to those who wish 

 to learn anything of our indigenous productions. The meeting should 

 also remember, while thanking Mr. Bailey for his paper on Queensland 

 Grasses, that the Society is in this case also indirectly indebted to Mr. 

 Woods, as but for him the writer would not have been numbered amongst 

 the corresponding members. 



The vote having been passed, Mr. Nowell and the Rev. J. E. T. Woods 

 returned thanks, the latter suggesting that in the future published lists of 

 the Fellows, asterisks should be placed before the names of those who had 

 furnished papers to the Society. 



The suggestion was adopted by the meeting, and the proceedings then 

 terminated. 



