PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER. XIX 



aging the Study of Natural History in Tasmania," by Mr. J. R. 

 McClymont, M.A, *' Note^ on Tasmanian Crustacea, with description 

 of Mew Species," by Mr. Geo. M. Thomson, F.L.S., New Zealand. 

 ** Notes on Some Plants New to Tasmania," by Mr. Leonard Rodway. 

 On the proposition of the President a unanimous vote of thanks 

 was accorded the writers of the papers. 



THE PRESENTATIONS. 



The Hon. J. W. Agnew (honorary secretary and senior vice- presi- 

 dent of the Society), in prefacing the reading of the following address to 

 the President, referred eulogistically to the warm practical interest 

 Sir Robert Hamilton had displayed in the operations of the Society. 

 In comparing his Excellency's active work for the Society with the 

 indiflference of other influential members of the community, he asked 

 for larger support, science, like war, requiring sinews ; he also re- 

 minded the audience that the Society was the only link between science 

 in Tasmania and the rest of the world, and stated that the Society held 

 considerable and more communication than was generally supposed with, 

 similar organisations in Europe, England, America, Canada, South 

 Africa, Asia, and the other Australian colonies. 



To His Excellency Sir R. G. C. Hamilton, K.C.B., LL.D., President of 

 the Royal Society of Tasmania. 



Sir,— On the eve of your departure from the colony we, the Council of the 

 Royal Society of Tasmania, desire to express, on behalf of the Fellows, our 

 warm and cordial appreciation of the deep and practical interest which 

 your Excellency lias ever taken in the work of tliis Society. That thds 

 interest has been real and unwavering is shown by the fact that during 

 the entire term of your official connection with the colony, now nearly six 

 years, you have never failed to preside at our monthly meetings, except on 

 two occasions only, when circumstances rendered it impossible ; and not 

 only is the Society indebted to you for contributions to its proceedings, but 

 it has been enriched by yo-ur very liberal and valuable donations of 

 standard works to the library. It is, therefore, almost needless to say we 

 deeply regret that these pleasant relations, which have so long existed, are 

 about to be severed, though we may be allowed at the same time to e:^- 

 press a hope that the Society may still have the gre'at benefit of your co-oper- 

 ation as a corresponding member. It only remains for us to offer our best 

 and heartiest wishes for your future, whether passed in an official or private 

 life ; and as Lady Hamilton has been a not unfrcquent visitor at our 

 meetings, we respectfully beg to join her name with yours when we now 

 bid you farewell. We remain j^our Excellency's very obedient servants — 



(Signed by the Council and secretary). 



Mr. Barnard, vice-president and senior member of the Society, 

 said ; Your Excellency and Lady Hamilton, by way of supplement to 

 the address which has just been presented to Your Excellency by Dr. 

 Agnew, I have now the pleasant and agreeable duty to perform on 

 behalf of the Council and Fellows of the Royal Society, of offering for 

 Lady Hamilton's acceptance a Tasmanian black opossum skin rug as a 

 token of the personal respect and esteem in which she is held by the 

 members of this Society. It is not too much to say nf Lady Hamilton 

 that she is a pattern of all the domestic virtues, and that during her 

 residence in Tasmania she has, both by precept and example, exercised a 

 beneficial influence upon society generally, and upon youog people in 

 particular, that is likely to prove of lasting effect. Utility and comfort, 

 rather than ornament and show, have been studied in the selection of the 

 souvenir now presented, and it i^ hoped that Lady Hamilton in her 

 travels in other and far distant lands, and under less genial skies, 

 when using the carriage rug, will often hs reminded of her pleasant 

 sojourn in our sunny island of Tasmania. It now remains only to 

 convey to Lady Hamilton our best wishes for the health, happiness, 

 and prosperity of herself and family, and to express our sincere regret 

 that we have so soon to say farewell. (Applause.) 



