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OCTOBER, 1884. 



The monthly meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania was held on 

 Monday, October 13. Mr. James Barnard, vice-president, occupied 

 the chair. A large number of Fellows were present. 



Mr, J.W. Clunies Ross,B. Sc.,F.G.S.,Etc., Etc., London, ^Yas introduced 

 as a visitor. 



XEW FELLOWS. 



The following gentlemen having been previously nominated by the 

 Council, were duly elected as 1 ellows of the Society : — Messrs. A. 

 Giblin, A. J. Robertson, A. I. Clark, and A. Morton. 



RETURNS, ETC. 



The hon. secretary brought forward the usual returns, viz. : — 



1. Number of visitors to the Museum, September — Week days, 

 1,330; Sundays, 740; total, 2,070. 



2. Number of visitors to Gardens, 6,220. 



3. Plants and seeds received at the Royal Society's Gardens during 

 the month of September. From the Botanic Gardens, Port Natal, 38 

 packets of seed. From Mr. J ames Grant, Sydney, 30 do. do. 



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

 in the Royal Society Gardens during September, 1884. 



15. Common ash, commencing to break. 



15. Grape vines commencing to break. 



16. Oaks generally commencing to break. 



21. Moutan pceony in full flower. 



22. Horse chestnut, commencing to flower. 



23. Robinia pseudo acacia commencing to break. 

 20. Sycamore commencing to break. 



30. Common plane tree commencing to break. 



List of additions to the library, September, 1884 : — 



The sixty-fourth report of the Council of the Leeds Philosophical 

 and Literary Society. From the Society. 



Le Congo Depuis L'Equateur Jusqu'a L'Ocean. From the Institut 

 National De Geographie, Bruxelles. 



Records of the Geological Survey of India, vol. xvii., pt. 3, 1884. 

 From the Geological Survey Office, Calcutta. 



Bombay Magnetical and Meteorological Observations, 1879 to 1882. 

 From the Meteorological Office, Bombay. 



Appendix to the above. From the Meteorological Office, Bombay. 



Nature, vol. 30. July, 1884. 



Athenajum, July, 1884. 



Florist and Pomologist, August 11. 



Journal of the Society of Arts, July 4, 11, 18, 25, August 1. 



Geological Magazine, August, 1884. 



Journal of Science, August, 1884. 



Annals Magazines of Natural History, August 4, 1884. 



Agricultural Gazette, August 4, 1884. 



Gardeners' Chronicle, August 9, 1884. 



1. Extract from the proceedings of the Victoria Institute. Annual 

 meeting, 1884. Speech of Sir J. Lefroy, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. 



2. Address to the geographical section of the British Association, bv 

 Sir J. H. Lefroy, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. From Sir J. H. Lefroy, K.C.M.G.", 

 etc. 



Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XLIV., 

 No. 8, June 1884. From the Society. 



Monthly record meteorological observations. May, Melbourne 

 Observatory. From R. L. J. Ellery, Government Astronomer. 



5. Mullen's Monthly Circular^ September. 



