EOYAL SOCIETY. 



JUNE, 1867. 



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

 11th June, His Excellency Colonel T. Gore Browne, President, in the 

 chair. 



The Secretary, Dr. Agnew, lajd on the table the following returns : — 



1. Visitors to Museum, 439. 



2. Ditto to Botanic Gardens, 1,102. 



3. Plants and seeds received at gardens. — From Mr. E. Henderson, 



Sydney, 1 case containing 22 plants. From Messrs. Grant and 

 McMillan, Melbourne, 63 papers of flower seeds. 



4. Plants, &c., sent from gardens. — To Mr. E. Henderson, 1 case con- 



taining 20 plants, 32 chrysanthemums, and 30 papers seeds. 



5. Tench supplied. Mr. G. Wilson, 10 ; Mr. Propsting, 6. 



6. Time of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few standard plants in 



Botanic Gardens. 



7. Books and periodicals received. 



8. Presentations to Museum. 

 Meteorological Eetunis. 



1. Hobart Town, from F. Abbott, Esq. — Table for May, with summary 



of observations. 



2. Port Arthur, from J. Boyd, Esd— Table for April. 



3. Westbury, from F. Belstead, Esq.— Table for May. 



The Secretary read an analysis of the meteorological records, with a 

 health report for May, by E. S. Hall, Esq. 

 The presentations to the museum were as follows : — 



1. From Mr. J. Kelly, an Indian spinning wheel. 



2. From J. E. Calder, Esq., specimens of the small fish (closely allied 



to the Pilchard) referred to at last meeting as being driven ashore 

 in vast numbers at Barnes' Bay. 



3. From Mr. E. Aitkin a large number of bones of the Moa (JDinornis 



sp.J from Southland, New Zealand. 

 In drawing attention to this valuable donation, the Secretary remarked 

 that, although many of the bones were duplicates of those already in the 

 Museum, he thought, from information be had received, it was very 

 probable by furnishing the donor with a list of those we still required we 

 should obtain many new ones. We might then in time hope to be enabled 

 to build up an entire skeleton of this gigantic bird. 



4. From Colonel Chesney, specimen of Native Bear, or Kaola 



fPhascolarctos cinereusj, trom Victoria. 



6. From Mr. S. H. Wintle, a collection of bones from a cave in the 



Glenorchy district, with a descriptive letter addressed to the 



Secretary, which was read to the meeting. 



With regard to the bones, Mr. AUport mentioned that he had carefully 



examined the whole collection (kindly submitted to him, by Mr. Wintle), 



