ROYAL SOCIETY. 



JUNE, 1868. 



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

 ^th June, J. Davies, Esq., M.H.A., in the chair. 



S. Wright, Esq., and J. R. Scott, Esq., M.H.A., who had heen pre- 

 viously nominated by the Council, weie, after a ballot, declared to be 

 duly elected as Fellows of the Society. 



The Secretary, Dr. Agnew, laid on the table the usual monthly returns, 

 viz. : — 



1. Visitors to Museum, during May, 452. 



2. Ditto to Gardens, ditto, 1,477. 



3. Plants, &c., received at Gardens :— From Messrs. Taylor and Sang- 



ster, Melbourne, 43 plants. From T. C. Carey, Esq., 47 papers seeds 

 of plants indigenous to Western Australia. From the Botanic 

 Gardens, Ceylon, 42 papers of seeds. 



4. Times of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few standard plants in 



Botanic Gardens. 



5. Books and periodicals received. 



6. Presentations to Museum. 

 Meteorological Returns. 



1. Hobart Town, from F. Abbott, Esq., table, &c., for May. 



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



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



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



5. Tamar Heads, from R. Henry, Esq., table for April. 

 The presentations to the Museum were as follows : — 



1. From W. A. B. Gellibrand, Esq. Two recent specimens of the 



Native Tiger. (Thylacinus cynocephalus.J 



2. From W. Lovett, Esq. A Diamond Bird. Pardalotus punctatusj, 



and a Mountain Thrush. fOreocincla lunulata.) 



3. From J. W. Graves, Esq. An English Partridge. (Perdix cinerea.J 



4. From W. H. Price, Esq., Macquarie Plains. A Gannet. (Sula 



Australis.J 

 [In reference to this presentation Mr. M. AUport remarked it was a 

 most extraordinary circumstance that a bird of this nature should have 

 penetrated so far into the interior as the Macquarie Plains. It was evi- 

 dently by its plumage a bird in its first year, and was probably easily 

 captured, being unable readily to rise from the level of the ground on 

 which it was found, as is the case with many long winged sea birds.] 



5. From J. Forster, Esq. The skull of an Aborigine, picked up at 



" Brady's Look-out," Arthur's Lakes, the hunting ground of the 



Norfolk Plains tribe. 

 [This skull was found on comparison with others in the Museum, to be 

 very similar in conformation to one obtained from the same locality some 

 years back. In some minute particulars it differed from the Aboriginal 

 type of skull from other parts of the colony.] 



6. From J. Young, Esq. A crab caught at Kangaroo Point. 



7. From Mr. F. Cotton, jun., Swanport. A lizard. 



8. From J. Boyd, Esq., two Black Cockatoos, (Calyptorynchus zantho' 



notusj, shot at Port Arthur. 



