XIV PKOCEEDINGS, JULY. 



stringy bark we call them) some 15 years ago under the south end of 

 Mount Barrow. Having noticed in Sturt's map a patch marked 

 "impenetrable scrub" I had the curiosity to force my way through 

 it, and so found the trees in question. As well as I can remember, 

 there may be about a hundred of them, one being 33ft. through by 

 actual measurement with a tape, and, I should judge, 400ft. high. 

 The others are all about 20ft. to 25ft.sthrough, and as square as a 

 dry goods box, and would split like matches. None of them, except 

 the large one, have a blemish of any sort, but run up hundreds 

 of feet without a bough. The large tree is burnt through, there 

 being a passage wide enough for a man to walk. The first time I 

 saw it I could only measure it by pacing, but a few days afterwards I 

 got two of my brothers to go up with me, taking a tape, and we then 

 found its actual measurement as stated above. In all my travels 

 about Tasmania, prospecting and otherwise, I have never seen a 

 tree to compare in any way with this colossus, and it is worth going a 

 good way to see. I often think of these trees and endeavour to form 

 an idea as to how many palings one of them would split. I may say 

 that I was one of the Government party that cut and surveyed the track 

 through the great Gippsland scrub from Moe to Stockyard Creek and 

 saw some big trees, but none to compare with the one in question. 

 Apologising for trespassing on your valuable time. — I am, dear sir, yours 

 very truly and obliged, 



Chas. B. Barkley. 



A letter from Mr. A. Johnston, addressed to Colonel Legge, was also 

 read, wherein he directed attention to having brought under Colonel 

 Legge'a notice some years since a tree measuring 295ft. 



SELF-EEGISTERING THERMOMETER. 



Captain Shortt laid before the Society a chart showing the registra- 

 tion of temperature by a self-registering themometer recently received 

 from Paris. He explained that the instrument did not move by means 

 of spirit or mercury, but on an entirely new principle, i.e., the expansion 

 of a curved piece of brass. 



TERRA AtrSTRALIS. 



_ Mr. McClymont read a paper on the misconception existing in earlier 

 times on this subject. He dealt with the probable discoveries made by 

 early Portuguese and French voyageurs. 



OLD TASMANIAN CHARTS, 



Mr, Mault apologised for his inability to lay his paper on this subject 

 before the Society at that meeting. 



Mr. McClymont explained the circumstances which had given rise to 

 inquiries being made respecting charts captured from Captain Hayes by 

 the French. 



THE TRUMPET FLOWER, 



Mr, Ward related the results of recent analysis of a portion of the 

 plant mentioned by Dr, Hardy at the last meeting. He had discovered 

 only a small trace of atropine present. 



