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SEPTEMBER, 1874. 



[Owing to the extreme inclemency of the weather no meeting was held 

 this month.] 



OCTOBER, 1874. 



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

 the 13th October. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Tasmania in 

 the chair. 



The Hon. Secretary, Dr. Agnew, brought under notice the usual 

 monthly returns, viz. : — 



1. Visitors to Museum during August, 1341 ; during September, 



1367. 



2. Ditto to Gardens during August, 2365 ; during September, 3343. 



3. Plants, &c, received at Gardens — From Mr. B. Heyne, Adelaide, 



400 packets of seeds of annual and perennial plants. From Mr. 

 W. Bull, London, 332 packets of seeds. From Mons. C. Huber, 

 29 packets of seeds. From the Royal Gardens, Kew, seeds of 

 Bambusa striata. From the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 43 

 plants. From Mr. C. F. Creswell, 70 packets of imported seeds. 



4. Seeds sent from Gardens — To the Department of Agriculture, 



Washington, United States, 18 packets seeds. To the Queens- 

 land Acclimatisation Society, Brisbane, 50 packets seeds. To 

 Mr. E. B. Heyne, Adelaide, 1 packet Blue Gum seed. To Mons. 

 C. H. Huber, France, 4 ditto. To the Royal Gardens, Kew, 1 

 ditto. To Mr. Wm. Bull, London, 4 ditto. To the North China 

 Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 6 packet gum seeds. 



5. Plants supplied for the decoration of public places ; to Horton 



College, Ross, 108 plants. To General Hospital, Hobart Town, 55 

 plants. For St. George's burial ground, 30 plants. 



6. Time of lealing &c, of a few standard plants in the Botanic Gar- 



dens during August and September. 



7. Books and periodicals received. 



8. Presentations to Museum and Library* - . 

 Meteorological Returns — 



1. Hobart Town, from F. Abbott, Esq. — Tables for August and Sep- 



tember. 



2. New Norfolk, from W. E. Shoobridge, Esq.— Ditto, ditto. 



3. Mount Nelson, from the Marine Board — Ditto, ditto. 



4. Port Arthur, from J. Coverdale, Esq. — Ditto, ditto. 



5. Sydney, from H. C. Russell, Esq., B.A. — Printed tables for April, 



May and June, 1874. 



7. New Zealand, from J. Hector, Esq., M.D., F.R.S.— Printed 



tables for Wellington, from February to August, 1874, and for 

 various other stations from December 1873, to July 1874. Also 

 a general Meteorological Report for New Zealand, 1873. 



8. From the Meteorological Office, London. — Quarterly Weather 



Report, part 2, April to June, 1873. 

 The presentations to the Museum and Library were as follows : — 

 1. From the Home Government. A complete Suit of steel Armour, 



with Arms of a Cavalier of the early part of 17th Century. 

 The Secretary called particular attention to this very valuable addi- 

 tion to the Museum, and mentioned that the Council had transmitted 

 a special vote of thanks for it through His Excellency (as President) to 

 the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The presentation, from the 

 memories it called up of stirring periods of our earlier English history, 



