XXI 



OCTOBER, 1881. 



The usual monthly evening meeting of the Society was held at the 

 Museum on Monday, the 10th of October ; His Honor Mr. Justice Dobson, 

 V.P. , in the chair. 



Mr. John Hamilton, who had previously been nominated by the 

 Council, was balloted for, and declared duly elected as a Fellow of the 

 Society. 



The following returns for the past month were brought under notice, 

 viz.: — 



1. Visitors to Museum, on Sundays 581, on week days 786, total 1,367. 



2. Ditto to Gardens 4,500. 



3. Plants, etc., received at Gardens : — From Mr. C. F. Creswell, Sydney, 



1 bag of Norfolk Island Pine seeds. From Mr. S. Purchass, Sydney, 

 a case of Norfolk Island Pine plants. From Messrs. H. Low and 

 Co., London, 58 plants, of which about one-half were dead on 

 arrival. From Mr. C. F. Creswell, Melbourne, seven new Dahlia 

 roots. 



4. Seeds sent from Gardens to Messrs. Villmorin and Co., Paris, and the 



Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. 



5. Books and Periodicals received. 

 6. Presentations to Museum — 



Meteorology : 1. From the Marine Board, tables from Mount Nelson and 

 Bruny Island, for September. 2. From the Government Observer, 

 New Zealand, printed tables from Wellington, for July and August. 



Time of leafing, flowering, etc., of a few standard plants in the Botanic 

 Gardens during September : — 



20th Moutan Peony commencing to flower. 



24th Oak comment;ing to break into leaf. 



26th Grape vines ditto. 



27th Ash ditto. 



28th Sycamore ditto. 



29th Horsechestnut commencing to flower. 



30th Bobinia Pseudo-Acacia commencing to break. 

 The presentations to the Museum were as follows: — 



1. From the Hon. W. A. B. Gellibrand, M.L.C. A Native Tiger (7Vi?/- 



lacinus cyjiocephahis). 



2. From H. Lamb, Esq., M.H.A. Two Native Devils (SarcopJiilits 



ursinus), male and female, from Clarence Plains. 



3. From Mrs. GiflFord. Specimen of the red-rumped Parrakeet (Psepholm 



hoemat07iotusJ, from Queensland, 



4. From Mrs. Lodder. A number of additional specimens of Tasma- 



nian Lepidoptera. 



5. From Mr. Glover. A Bush Rat (Mus 67). ), from Huon District. 



6. From Master PuUeine. Five shells from Fiji. 



7. From Mr. S. H. Wintle, Specimens from the Scamander Goldfield. 



8. From Mr. Ives, Barque Ethel. A Flying Fish ( Exocetus volllans). 



9. From Mr. W. Doodie. Specimen of Agate from Camden Plains, near 



Mount Barrow. 



The attention of the meeting was called to a donation of books, from the 

 library of the late Dr. E. S. Hall, received from the representatives of 

 that gentleman, and conrprisiug about 130 bound volumes, together 

 with a large number of official blue books, reports, pamphlets, etc. 



A paper by Mr. S. H. Wintle on " The Scamandor^Goldfield " was read 

 in the absence of the author, by Mr. Stephicns ; who remarked that the 

 locality in question, lying as it did on the lower line between the boundary 

 palceozoic and granitoid rocks, possessed special interest for the geologist, 

 and that he could corroborate Mr. Wintle's statement as to the satis- 

 factory prospects obtained from the quartz veins, so far as tlipy have been 

 tested. 



