ELECTION OF. FELLOWS. 



Messrs. H. R. Hutchison and G. Weindorfer were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



HONORARY MEMBER. 



On the recommendation of the Council Lieutenant (now Sir- 

 Ernest) Shackleton was elected an Honorary Member of the.- 

 Society. 



'Mv. Stephens said that the office of Honorary Member was. 

 restricted by their rules to persons not resident in Tasmania 

 who had distinguished themselves as promoters o^' the objects 

 of the Society and other kindred institutions, and the Council; 

 were gratified on learning from the leader* of the recent Ant- 

 arctic exploration that it would give him great pleasure to be ■ 

 associated with an institution founded by Sir John Franklin. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ : 



( i) Notes on the occurrence of a Fossil Tree embedded in 

 Drift on the North-West Coast of Tasmania. By T. Stephens, 

 MZ\., F.G.S. 



The author describes the locality as being about half-a-mile 

 east of the glacial drift previously describea as occupying the 

 coast line between Woody Hill and Table Cape, and states that 

 further exploration would be required before the true relations , 

 of this comparatively recent drift and the moraine matter farther- 

 to the west could be positively determined. Specimens of the ■ 

 fossil Avood, and of the drift in which it was embedded, were 

 laid on the table for the inspection of Fellows. 



My. R. ]\I. Johnston, in the course of the discussion which 

 followed, said that no other part of the world that he knew of 

 was so rich in the fossil remains of forests of past ages as Tas- 

 mania. 



Dr. Noetling; spoke of the opalised specimens of fossilised 

 wood, mentioning remarkable instances he had observed in 

 India. 



(2) Rocks used in the manufacture of Tronattas. By Fritz 

 Noetling, M.A., Ph.D., etc. 



The observations recorded in this paper are based on the 

 examination of more than 5,000 tronattas, but as the important 

 microscopical examination is still outstanding", the results are 

 considered as preliminary^ only. Four classes of rocks only 

 were used in the manufacture, viz.. Chert or Hornstone, Porcel- 

 lanite. Breccia, and other silicious rocks such as Chalcedony, , 

 Wood-Opal, Fossil Wood, Quartz. Volcanic rocks were never 

 used except as hammerstones. Each class of rock is separately ■ 

 described, and a large number of observations regarding the 

 specific gravity were made. The hornstone is the heaviest of ' 

 ail, having an average spec. grav. of 2.678, and it could be 

 proved that 56.6 per cent, of the tronattas have a spec. grav. 

 above 2.600; that is to say, the Tasmanian stone implement is 

 considerably heavier than those found in Europe. A table of 

 frequency shows that on the average tronattas were made of 

 hornstone from 78.35 per cent., porcellanite following next with 



