PROCEEDINGS 
. Royal Society of f)ueenslaudl, 
THe Monthly Meeting of the Society was held on Friday, 9th 
January. The Vice-President, C. W. De Vis, Esq., M.A., in 
the Chair. 
The following New Members were elected :—J. Bell, Esq., 
Brisbane; W. H. Parish, Esq., Springsure. 
The Chairman announced that a Petition of the Members, 
signed on their behalf by the President, had been forwarded to 
His Excellency Sir Anthony Musgrave, praying His Excellency 
to take such steps as were necessary to secure to the Society the 
proper sanction for the title which it had assumed, and that a 
reply had been received wherein it was stated that His Excellency 
had much pleasure in moving the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies to obtain the necessary permission. 
DONATIONS ANNOUNCED. 
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“Geological Surveys in New South Wales.” Parliamentary 
_ Papers, N.S.W.,1853-55. From A.W. Jardine, Esq., Rockhampton. 
“ Report of the General Meeting of the Paisley Philosophical 
Institution.” Paisley, 1885. From J. Bell, Esq. 
“The Midland Medical Miscellany.’ Vol, III., No. 35, 1884. 
From the Editor, Leicester. 
“Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society, 1883-4, Vol. III., Part 5. Norwich, 1884, From the 
Society. 
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