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NOVEMBER, 1869. 



The monthly evening meeting of the Fellows, the last of the session, 

 was held on Wednesday, the 16th November, J. Barnard, Esq., in the 

 chair. 



The Secretary, Dr. Agnew, laid on the table the following returns for 

 the past month : — 



1. Visitors to Museum, 3204. 



2. Ditto to Gardens, 2624. 



3. Times of leafing, &c., of a few standard plants in gardens. 



4. Books and periodicals received. 



5. Presentations to Museum. 

 Meteorological Reticrns. 



1. Hobart Town, fromF. Abbott, Esq., table and summary for October. 



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



3. Swansea, from Dr. Story, table for September. 



4. Sydney, from G. R. Smalley, Esq., tables for July (printed). 



5. Melbourne, from R. L. J. Ellery, Esq., table and notes for September. 



6. New Zealand, from Dr. Hector, tables for June and July. 



7. Westbury, from F. Belstead, Esq., table for October. 

 The presentations to the Museum were as follows : — 



1. From Captain Garth, an albatross (Biomedla exulans)^ caught on the 



East Coast of the colony. 



2. From Miss Peck, an English barn owl fStrix flammeaj , prepared and 



mounted. 



3. From Salmon Commissioners, a Salmon Smolt, caught in the Derwent. 



4. From Mr. M. Allport, two fish from Wedge Bay. 



5. From the Hon. J. Maclanachan, Esq., a Pheasant, a cross between. 



the English and Chinese varieties. 



6. From Mr. J. C. Edgar, Sorell, 7 specimens of Land Shells. 



7. From JMr. W. Legrand, 2 specimens of Land Shells. (Bulimus 



TasmanicKs.J 



8. From Mr. E. D. Swan, polished specimen of Fluor Spar, from 



Derbyshire, England. 



9. From Mrs. New, Bagdad, for Mr. J. Davies, a brown Trout (Salmo 



farioj caught in the Bagdad creek. 



10. From G. Luttrell, shell impressions from Port Cygnet. 



11. From Captain Williams, two samples of water from a mineral spring 



at Spring Bay. Also the tail of a large Tunny, which was driven 

 on shore by a porpoise at Spring Bay. The fish weighed over 

 400 lbs. 



Mr. J. Davies presented for examination a sample of gold, weighing 

 about \\ oz., which he could State from excellent authority was obtained by 

 two men, in two days' work by digging at the Black Boy Reef at Mangana. 



Mr. Davies also submitted a sample of so-called jewel-sand for the pur- 

 pose of obtaining the opinion of the Society as to the fact of its containing 

 precious stones. (This sand has been examined under the microscope, but 

 no valuable stones were found to be present ; it contained, however, a con- 

 siderable proportion of fine gold.) 



Mr. M. Allport called attention to the presentation of a smolt by the 

 Salmon Commissioners as placing upon record the first incontestable proof 

 of the success of the grand experiment in which the Royal Society of Tas- 

 mania had from the first taken so deep an interest. The last of the smolts 

 hatched from English eggs left for sea in October, 1868, and, if not des- 

 troyed, those fish must cither be grilse or approaching grilse-hood ; that is 



