6. Prom J. Boyd, Esq., Port Arthur. Veneers of 28 varieties of Tas- 



manian woods, mounted and polished. These specimens were pre- 

 pared for the Paris Exhibition, and shew in a striking manner 

 the great beauty of many of the Tasmanian woods, and their value 

 for ornamental purposes. 



7. From T. Ashworth, Esq., Bath, per J. A. Youl, Esq. Five full sized 



diagrams representing salmon and trout captured in the Severn and 

 Tay, and at Galway. 



Mr. M. AUport read the following letter from Dr. F. Mueller, of the 

 Melbourne Botanic Gardens, which had been received by the Secretary, 

 Dr. Agnew :— 



" Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 



*' 7th January, 1868. 



" Allow me, dear Dr. Agnew, to offer you, as Hon. Secretary of the 

 Eoyal Society of Tasmania, a few pages of observations on Tasmanian 

 plants. If such contributions should prove acceptable for the Society's 

 publication, I will gladly from time to time offer others, and thus special 

 supplements would arise to Dr. Hooker's work from new material. This 

 single contribution brings already 25 plants left unrecorded by my 

 illustrious friend. 



" The impression may thus also be removed that nothing was left to be 

 recorded in Tasmania ; thus intelligent and educated observers might feel 

 induced to send methodically and periodically contributions to me for 

 further elucidation of the plants of your islands. 



*' I long myself to visit King's Island and Flinders' Island, not merely 

 because in those dependencies of Tasmania many a plant wiU yet be 

 found new to your territory ; but more especially with a view of con- 

 trasting the vegetation there with that of Gipps Land, and to trace it to 

 its geological relation. The same physiographic enqtdries may lead me 

 yet to. your Alps ; and such excursions may contribute much also to the 

 buoyancy of mind, and the consolidation or restoration of health, all of 

 which I sadly am missing, as I am but partially recovered from my long 

 and severe illness. 



" By the next Hobart Town steamer I shall send a number of Chinese 

 tea plants, and others calculated to live in your mild fern-tree glens. If 

 you could afford space and provide a temperature of 80 deg. F., I could 

 send also a plant of the magnificent waterlily, the Victoria regia. 



" Your very regardful, 

 "FEED. MUELLER. 



" N.B. — I could only send fragments of some of the plants in letter 

 form." 



The paper alluded to entitled " Contributions to the Phytography of 

 Tasmania" was then read. 



In reference to Dr. Mueller's interesting paper Mr. M. Allport observed 

 that the Fellows of the Society ought to mark in a distinct manner their 

 appreciation of the Doctor's efforts to afford them instruction, and to 

 benefit their Transactions by the contribution of valuable papers such as 

 that he had just had the honor to read. Mr. Allport concluded by pro- 

 posing that a special vote of thanks should be accorded to Dr. Mueller, 

 which was seconded by Mr. Giblin, and unanimously carried. 



Mr. M. AUport next called the attention of the Fellows present to the 

 diagrams of salmon and trout forwarded as a present to the Society by 

 Mr. James A. Youl, and which afforded another proof of the continual 

 interest which that gentleman took in the welfare of Tasmania. In re- 

 ference to the largest of these figures, which represented a fish weighing 

 501bs., the probability was (if the statements of the learned were to be 

 relied on) that the age of this fish was about 10 years, as after the 3rd 



