il PROCEEDINGS, APRIL. 
ledge gained at the Society’s meetings might be small, but in all scientific 
observation it was not individual discovery that was so valuable, but the 
accumulation of discoveries put together, and individual inferences then 
to be drawn from those discoveries. In this way science went on in- 
creasing at a marvellous speed. Certainly, the march of science during 
the last century, in the last decade of which we now were, had been 
something beyond the conception of any individual born at the end of 
the previous century, And what it would be in the next century 
Heaven only knew. In this century we had seen steam come up as a 
motive power ; and it had had its use and triumph; and the question 
now was whether it was not giving way before a power of almost 
unknown capacity—electricity. We had seen gas rise for lighting ; now 
the question was whether we might not see it almost die out as an 
illuminant, We had, within the last 25 years, seen the world girdled 
with the electric telegraph, and what other wonders were now going on 
could hardly be told. When we came to carry ourselves back to the end 
of the last century, and the fleet with which Nelson fought at Trafalgar, 
remembering that one of our modern warships with its few guns could 
annihilate the whole of that fleet, or that the armies of Napoleon would 
fall like wheat before the sickle in front of our niodern machine weapons, 
it might well startle us into wondering what the world was coming to. 
With such an advanc2 of science as many had seen in the present 
century what might not be expected to be its advance in the future? 
Every little society like this helped on the advance of science. By 
careful registration of observations, its members were able to assist to 
the best of their power the advancement of science in the ensuing 
century. (Applause.) 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
A circular letter from Mr. F. M. Bailey, Government Botanist, 
Queensland, asking for information for a supplementary volume to the 
‘** Flora Australiensis,” was ordered to stand over, pending inquiries. 
Another circular was read from the Royal Society of New South 
Wales, giving details and conditions under which its medal and £25 are 
offered for three series of original researches. 
GLACIATION IN TASMANTA, 
The Secretary (Mr. A. Morton) read an interesting paper contributed 
by Mr. T. B. Moore, F.R.G.S., Strahan, entitled ‘‘ Discuvery of Glacia- 
tion in Tasmania,” 
Mr. R. M. JoHNSTON, in some complimentary remarks on the paper, 
observed that its title was rather unfortunat2, inasmuch that one of the 
main facts known for 30 years in connection with the Western highlands 
was the abundant evidence of glaciation. With that exception he 
regarded the paper as a very valuable contribution, and thanked the 
writer accordingly. 
Mr. T. STEPHENS concurred in the general tenor of the previous 
speaker’s criticism, and hoped the faper might be regarded as the 
precursor of several others in what was really a very extensive and 
important field. 
FOSSIL FLORA. 
Mr. R. M. Jounston, F.L.S., read some ‘‘ Further contributions to 
the fossil flora of Tasmania.” 
A CATALOGUE OF TASMANIAN MINERALS, 
The SECRETARY presented ‘‘A catalogue of the minerals known to 
exist in Tasmania, with Notes on their distribution,” by Mr. W. F. 
Petterd, C.M.Z.S., and read the preface, in which the writer stated 
