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missory notes issued by the Government. Kangaroo, emu, pigeons, 

 quail, and black swans were plentiful, and during the winter months 

 black whales abounded in the river, as many as fifty being seen 

 at a time. Explorations were made up the Derwent as far as JVlac- 

 quarie Plains, and the Huon was visited. The new settlement received 

 the name of " Hobart Town" after the removal of the Risdon colony, 

 but for years it was generally known as "The Camp." The second 

 detachment from Port Phillip did not arrive until the 25th June, 

 the Ocean being five weeks on the passage. A census taken at the 

 end of July gave the total population at 433. 



LIST OF ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



List of additions to the Library of the Royal Society, November. 



Abhandlungen der Matkematisch Physikalischen classe, der Koniglich 

 Bayerischen, Akademie der Wissienschaften. From the Society. 



American Museum of Natural History. Annual report of the 

 Trustees, etc., for the years 1887-8-9. From the Trustees. 



Annual report of the Canadian Institute. Session 1887-8. From the 

 Society. 



Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission for 1886 (bound). 

 From the Commission. 



Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. No. 40. Changes in 

 river courses in Washington Territory due to Glaciation, by B, vVillis. 

 41. On the fossil faunas of the upper Devonian, the Genesee section, 

 N.Y., by H. S. Williams. 42. Report of work done in the division of 

 chemistry and physics mainly during the i3scal year 1885-6, by F. W. 

 Clarke. 43. On the Territory and Cretaceous strata of the Tuscaloosa, 

 Tombigbee, and Alabama rivers, by E. A. Smith and L. C. Johnson. 

 44. Bibliography of North American Geology for 1886, by N. H. 

 Darlon. 45. Present condition of knowledge of the geology of Texas, 

 by R. T. Hill. 46. The nature and origin of deposits of Phosphate of 

 lime, by R. A. F. Penrose, junr. 47. Analyses of waters of the Yellow- 

 stone, National Park, with an account of the analyses employed, by F. 

 A. Goocb, and J. E. Whitfield, From the Department. 



Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park, 

 New York, Vol, II., No. 2, March, 1889. From the Society, 



Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Vol. 19, 1387, Nos. 1 to 12. From 

 the Institute. 



Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Redigd avee, la concours de lu 

 section de publication, par le secretaires de la commission Centrale 

 Trimestre 1 to 3, Tome IV., 1888. From the Society. 



California State Bureau Mining. Eight annual reports of the State 

 Mineralogist for the year ending October 1, 1888. From the 

 Department, 



Department of the Interior. — U.S. Geological Survey, J. W. Powell, 

 director. Mineral resources of the U.S. calendar year, 1888, by D. T. 

 Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics (bound). From the Depart- 

 ment. 



General Index to the first twenty volumes of the Journal (Botanj), and 

 the botanical portion of the proceedings, November, 1838, to June, 

 1888, of the Linnsean Society of London (bound). From the Society. 



