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remarked that the Society was under great obligation to the donor for 

 having forwarded another specimen of this Tree Fern, the first having 

 died. It was especially iutorusting from the fact that its proper habitat 

 is New Zealand, and only one small group is known to exist in Tasmania, 

 deep in one of the dense forests near Circular Head. 



Mr. Barxard exhibited a section of the stem of a cherry tree showing 

 the burrow, several inches in length, of a destructive caterpillar, with 

 the animal still in situ. Mr. Barnard had noticed a blight on the chen-y 

 tree for the first time last year, but this was the first occasion on which 

 he had seen the caterpillar. It would he of great interest, he thought, to 

 determine the character of the moth which would eventually be produced. 



Mr. J. HwAN had seen the same caterpillar on more than one occasion on 

 the pear tree also. 



The Rev. J. E. Texison Woods, after giving a very clear and exhaustive 

 address on the history of Australian Geology, read a paper by Mr. R. M. 

 Johnston entitled, " Notes on the Tertiary Marine Deposits of Tasmania." 

 The pajjer, which was of a most elaborate character and illustrated by a large 

 series of specimens, was most favourably commented upon by the reader, 

 and was listened to with marked attention by the meeting. 



Mr. Stephens said that the Table Cape fossiliferous beds had been men- 

 tioned by Strzelecki as a " raised beach bedded on basalt ; " but that he 

 had shown in a paper read before the Society in 1869, after a cursory inspec- 

 tion of the locality, that they were clearly older than the basalt, and that 

 the fossils proved them to be connected with the tertiary dej)osits of 

 Victoria. He regretted that the author of the very interesting and valuable 

 paper which had .just been read was unable to be present, for there were 

 still some points requiring consideration before the exact relationship of 

 the marine beds to the igneous and other rocks of the neighbourhood 

 could be jjositively determined ; and these they could not discuss satis- 

 factorily in his absence. 



After a short discussion the cordial thanks of the meeting were (on 

 the motion of Mr. Stephens, seconded by Mr. Allport) accorded to 

 Mr. Johnston for his valuable paper, and to Mr. Woods for his adnairable 

 address. 



A vote of thanks to the donors of presentations closed the proceedings. 



