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Government with a request that the inscription should be placed as 

 suggested on the pedestal. He might perhaps be excused if he added, 

 although it was but a private matter, that he had some personal feeling in 

 making this proposition as in times long past he had received much kindness 

 from Sir John Franklin, and indeed it was the offer of appointment as his 

 Private Secretary which first induced him (Dr. Agnew) to leave Victoria in 

 order to settle in Tasmania. The inscription, as perhaps all present would 

 recollect, was 



" Not here ; the white North has thy bones, and thou, 

 Heroic sailor-soul, 

 Art passing on thy happier voyage now, 

 Toward no earthly pole." 



Mr. C. H. Grant had much pleasure in seconding the motion, which 

 was cordiallj^ adopted. 



Mr. P. T. Smith, referring to the severe storm with which we were 

 visited on the previous evening observed it was a dead calm in the city 

 in the early part of the day. During this calm his attention had been 

 directed to the loud roaring noises proceeding, without any visible cause, 

 from the mountain. They were very remarkable, although not so loud as 

 those he had formerly heard on the Western Tiers. He would be glad 

 to know if they had been heard by others. No one present had noticed 

 them, but 



Mr. W. E. Shoobridge stated he had no doubt they were due entirely to 

 the action of high winds on the trees. He would not be surprised to learn 

 that a storm raged on Mount Wellington when it was calm in Hobart 

 Town, as he had observed that these storms were frequently very local in 

 their action. At New Norfolk there were two ranges of hills with but 

 a moderate sized valley between, yet he had himself noticed a loud storm 

 raging on one of the ranges whilst it was quite calm on the other. He 

 fancied the direction of the wiad had a very considerable influence (at 

 least at New Norfolk) on the noises, as they appeared to be much louder 

 when it blew from the N.W. than from any other quarter. 



The proceedings then terminated. 



[The following paragraph was accidentally omitted from the report of 

 the May meeting.] 



Mr. Justice Dobson exhibited a cui-ious case in which the underground 

 stem of couchgrass had pierced through the bulb of a hyacinth. The 

 growing point of the stem, on meeting the bulb, instead of being deflected 

 and passing around it, had pursued its direct horizontal course and forced 

 its way through the obstacle. Mr. Dobson had noticed many instances of 

 this, and occasionally the same stem was found to have even gone through 

 ■everal bidbs. 



