DONATIONS. 37 
NEW MEMBERS. 
Dr. W. S. Byrne and C. Pritchard, Esq., of Brisbane; 
and James Tolson, Esq., of Enoggera. 
DONATIONS. 
‘Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tas- 
mania for 1885.” Hobart, 1886. From the Society. 
“Annual Report of the Rockhampton Natural History 
Society,” 1885-6. From the Society. 
“Bulletin of the American Geographical Society,” No. 2. 
New York, 1885. From the Society. 
“Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences.” 
Parts II. and III. Philadelphia, 1884. From the Academy. 
“Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.” 
Vol. XIII., Part I. Boston, 1885. From the Society. 
“The Victorian Naturalist,” Vol. II., No. 2. Melbourne, 
March, 1886. From the Field Naturalist Club of Victoria. 
“Descriptive Catalogue of the General Collection of 
Minerals in the Australian Museum,” by A. F. Ratte. 
Sydney, 1885. From the Australian Museum. 
“Queensland Woods—Catalogue of the Indigenous 
Woods contained in the Queensland Court of the Colonial 
and Indian Exhibition of 1886,” and “A Synopsis of the 
Queensland Flora, rst Supplement,” Brisbane, 1886, by F. 
Mo. Bailey, F.L.S.,. etc. Colonial, Botanist. . From, the 
Author. 
“The Australian Irrigationist,’ No. 20. Melbourne, 
March, 1886. From the Editor. 
“A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the 
Arts,” by John Nicholson, Vols. 1-12 (in 4 vols.) London, 
1802-5. From Mr. J. Cribb, Brisbane. 
“Records of the Geological Survey of India,” Vol. 19, 
Part I. Calcutta, 1886. From the Director. 
A discussion arose as to the necessity of providing a 
room—other than that at present available—for the use of 
the Society, especially in view of its rapidly growing library ; 
and the Chairman referred to the steps which the Council 
had already taken in order to meet this requirement. 
