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either would, )I fancy, answer the purpose, as by photography a fac 

 simile could be taken and utilised for the purpose for which the likeness 

 is required." 



Mr. Justin Browne remarks in a note — "In a cheap publication in 

 Dutch, published about five years ago, giving Tasman's discovery of 

 Van Diemen's Land there is no portrait of Tasman, nor do I believe there 

 is one to be found in the Colony ; but I believe there are three copies of * 

 a likeness of Governor Van Diemen in existence here, of which I possess 

 one." Mr. Browne adds, " T?ie Times, in noticing the Amsterdam Ex- 

 hibition, mentions that portraits of the Colonial Dutch Governors were 

 exhibited, but names are not given." 



The Rev. J. Wilkes Simmons read a letter from the Hon. Secretary 

 of the Geographical Society of Australasia, enclosing printed copy of 

 rules, and asking for co-operation from the friends of Geographical Science 

 in Hobart in forming a branch Society. 



The Secretary expressed the fear that there was not sufficient scope 

 for the formation of a distinct branch Society, important as it was in its 

 objects — defined to be at once scientific, commercial, and educational — 

 but undertook to bring the matter before the Council at its next meeting. 



Mr. E. M. Johnston read a "Notice of Additions to the list of Tas- 

 manian Fishes, containing a description of a new species (Olistherops 

 Brownii), and particularly referring to the recent successful introduction, 

 by the Salmon Commissioners, into the Colony from New Zealand, of a 

 species of Trout {Salmo fontinalis), a native of the rivers and lakes of 

 North America. 



Captain ShOrtt read some introductory "Notes on earthquake 

 shocks in reference to those reported to have recently occurred in the 

 North and North-eastern parts of the island." 



Mr. R. M. Johnston drew the attention of the members to two im- 

 portant articles, in the Geological Magazine for April and June, 1883, 

 upon the Tertiary Flora of Australia. One of the articles, written by 

 Professor Dr. C. Baron von Ettingshausen^ of the University of Graz, 

 Austria, who is one of the first authorities in Europe, is in itself the sub- 

 stance of a paper read before the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 

 Vienna, giving the results of a special examination of a large series of 

 fossil plants from the Tertiary strata of New South Wales and Tasmania. 

 The Tertiary deposits in the neighbourhood of Hobart have been largely 

 referred to, and many new species have been determined therefrom. As 

 it is very desirable that important articles bearing upon our own natural 

 history should be accessible to local naturalists, Mr. Johnston recom- 

 mended that the articles referred to be reproduced in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Mr. Johnston also stated that 

 it would be of the greatest benefit to local paljeontologists if a copy of 

 the original paper could be obtained and translated into English, 

 in order that the new species determined could be identified with the 

 names given ; and he suggested that one of our Corresponding Members, 

 Mr. Robert Etheridge, jun., of the British Museum, be asked to under- 

 take the important task for the Society. 



A general conversation ensued on the two papers read, after which 

 votes of thanks, on the motion of Dr. Perkins, seconded by Mr. Atkins, 

 were accorded to the authors, and also to the donors to the Museum 

 and Library, 



In introduciug his paper Mr. Johnston remarked that the two species 

 now described by him ( (Jkilodactylus carponemus. Parkinson, the "Old 

 Man Perch," and Sphyrcena Nova BoUandice, Gunther." "The Port 

 Phillip Pike ") were not embraced in his original catalogue of the fishes of 

 Tasmania (1882). Dr. Richardson, nearly forty years ago, referred to the 

 first mentioned species as inhabiting the waters in the neighbourhood of 

 Port Arthur, but as the original description was defective, and as there was 



