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ROYAL SOCIETY. 



SEPTEMBER, 1869. 



The monthly evening meeting of the Fellows was held on Tuesday, the 

 14th September, James Barnard, Esq., in the chair. 



]\Ir. M. Allport, in the absence of the Hon. Secretary, laid on the table 

 the usual returns for the past month, viz. : — • 



1. Visitors to the Museum, 1019. 



2. Ditto to Gardens, 1572. 



3. Plants sent from Gardens. 



4. Ditto received at ditto. 



5. Time of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few standard plants at 



Gardens. 



6. Books and periodicals received. 



7. Presentations to Museum and Library. 

 Meteorological Retiinis. 



1. Hobart Town, from F. Abbott, Esq., table and summary for August. 



2. Port Arthur, from J. Boyd, Esq., table for Ausust. 



3. Swansea, from Dr. Story, table for June and July. 



4. Westbury, from F. Belstead, Esq., table for August. 



5. Brisbane, Queensland, from E. McDonnell, Esq., table for July, and 



summary of observations for 1868. 



6. Melbourne, from R. J. Ellery, Esq., table for July. 



7. Perth, Western Australia, from W. H. Knight, Esq., do do. 

 The presentations were as follows : — 



1. From Mr. Oscar Hedberg, a collection of shells from the East Coast 



of Tasmania. [In calling attention to this presentation, Mr. 

 Allport remarked that many of the specimens were very excellent 

 of their kind, and although not new to the Museum, were valu- 

 able for the purpose of exchange.] 



2. From Mr. Chaplin, a mineralogical specimen from Black Brush. 



3. From Mr. H. McRa, specimens of Liva and calcareous Tufa, also a 



Spirifer, from Abyssinia, near Bothwell. A stone implement of 

 the Aborigines. 



4. From Mr. A. H. Swift, Little Taylor's Bay, two specim.ens of Iron 



Ore (Kematite) from Point Ventinat. 



5. From G. Dinham, two fossil Shark's Teeth from the Lias, near Bath, 



England. 



6. From Mr. C. A. Glover, 15 mineralogical specimens from West Coast 



of Tasmania. Also specimens of a fibrous plant, supposed by the 

 donor to be a new species, from the same locality. 



7. From Mr. G. P. Clifford, Dunedin, two ^(^xA^ax^' (Sept aria) from 



Moeraki Beach, New Zealand. [These boulders are found in 

 large numbers on the beach referred to, and not elsewhere ia 

 New Zealand. They vary in size from that of a cricket ball up 

 to seven or eight feet in diameter, are of calcareous composition, 

 and are remarkable for the regularity of their form, which is 

 almost perfectly spherical. When burned they make an excellent 

 cement.*] 



* One of them has since been dividcil, and found to be hollow in the centre, 

 the cavity being lined with ciystals of Carbonate of Lime. 



