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OCTOBER, 1878. 



The monthly evening meeting of the Society was held on Monday^ 

 October 7, T. Stephens, Esq., M.A., in the chair. 



The Hon. Secretary (Dr. Agnew) brought forward the usual monthly 

 returns, viz. : — 



1. Number of visitors to Museum during Sept.— On Sundays, 1,284 ; 



on week days, 1,050 ; total, 2,334. 

 [Attention was called to the remarkable fact that the attendance of 

 the public during the Sundays of the past month was greater than that 

 on all the week days during the same period. The present was the first 

 occasion on which this had occurred since the opening of the Museum 

 on Sundays, about ten months ago.] 



2. Number of visitors to Botanic Gardens in Sept. Total, 5,726. 



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



Gardens during September. 



4. Books and Periodicals received. 



5. Presentations to Museum. 

 Meteorological Returns. 



1. Hobart Town, from F. Abbott, Esq. — Table for September. 



2. From the Marine Board. — Tables from Mount Nelson for August^ 



South Bruni for September, Goose Island for July and August, 

 and Swan Island for August. 

 The presentations to the Museum were as follows : — 



1. From Mr. Wm. Barlow. — Specimen of Fossil Wood from the gravel 



pit. New Town Racecourse. 



2. From James Scott, Esq., M.H.A. — A very fine specimen of silicified 



wood (part of trunk of a large tree just above the root) from 

 Mount Morriston. 



3. From Mr. Dawson. — Tin specimens from Waratah, No. 3 claim, 



Gould's Country. 



4. From John Mitchell, Esq., M.H.A. — Specimens of Iron Ore from 



Pontypool, East Coast. 



5. From Mr. W. R. Dyer. — Fossil Sharks Teeth from a Quarry at 



Ormond, Poverty Bay, New Zealand. 



6. From Mrs. Watson. — A Calabash from Eastern Archipelago. 



7. From Mrs. Watson, per J. Barnard, Esq. — A copy of the General 



Evening Post newsTpa.per, September, 1773. 



8. From Joseph Solomon, Esq. — A very large egg, weighing six ounces, 



laid by a Spanish fowl. 



9. From Mr. P. Hill. — Two fossils {Spirifers) from the Mudstone, 



Castle Forbes Bay. 



A specimen of double Epacris, from North West Bay, was exhibited 

 by Archdeacon Da vies, who had received it from Mr. H. Buckland. A 

 similar specimen, from the same locality, had been formerly received by 

 the Archdeacon from the Eev. H. D. Atkinson. 



Mr. F. Abbott, Junr., exhibited two pretty Orchids, from the Botanic 

 Gardens in full flower, viz., Dendrohium nobile from India, and Leptotes 

 hicolor from Brazil. 



A paper was read by the Secretary ** On some new MoUusca," 

 supplementary to a former one on the same subject, by the Rev. J. E. 

 Tenison- Woods, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., etc. 



A second paper by the same learned author, entitled ** On some Tas- 

 manian Fresh-water univalves," was also read. This was a long and 

 valuable contribution, and, with the former paper, was ordered to be 

 printed in the papers and proceedings of the Society. 



The Chairman reminded the meeting that a communication had been 

 presented about a year ago to the Society, by the Rev. W. W. Spicer 



