Society for many years. She died to-day in Melbourne. You will 

 recollect that the last time we met I brought under your notice some 

 of her works which it is very desirable should be secured for the 

 Society. They consist of books and pictures of shells, animals, and 

 flowers. They have been ou view downstairs, and several people have 

 been to see them. Now they are up in this room (the Art Gallery), 

 and perhaps after this meeting is over some who are present would 

 like to inspect them. The works are bound in the best style, as all 

 her works are, and now by the intelligence of her death a melancholy 

 interest is attached to them. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The Hon. Thos. Reibey, M.H.A.,and Mr. J. G. Mitchell, of Jericho, 

 were balloted for, and unanimously elected members of the Society, 



LETTER FROM MR. WRACGE. 



Mr. Clement L. Wngge wrote from the Chief Weather Bureau, 

 Brisbane, as follows : — 



My Dear Morton, -This letter is an official one to you as secretary to the 

 Royal Society, and I will beg you to read it before the Fellows. I must 

 confess that I am much disappointed that the Government of Tasmania 

 have not voted the funds necessary to continue the maintenance of the new 

 meteorological service of Tasmania; taut I learn at the same time, with 

 sincere gratification, that it is proposed to hand over the local direction of 

 the Tasmanian weather service to your Society. I am sure that the interests 

 of this service will be; jealously and safely guarded by your august body, and 

 that your Society will do its utmost to take such steps as may be necessary 

 to maintain, not only the observatories at Hobart and on Mount Wellington 

 but also the out-stations in different parts of the isla,nd. Of course it was 

 on the distinct understanding that these stations are maintained, or to put it 

 in other words, that data are forthcoming from these stations, that I under- 

 took to cable daily to Tasmania, without any expense whatever, the fore- 

 casts issued here for your island. It will at once be evident that if the 

 Tasmanian stations cannot he kept going, the forecasts cannot possibly be 

 up to the present standard of accuracy. I have reason to believe that they 

 have already been found of considerable practical utility, and it will be 

 most deplorable in public interests if the present efficient service cannot be 

 kept afloat. I would therefore earnestly commend the Meteorological 

 Department of Tasmania to the special care of your Society, and feel sure 

 that you will recognise in Mr. Kingsmill, as Government Meteorologist for 

 Tasmania, one who has thoroughly the interests of his department at heart, 

 and do what you can to assist him in these important duties. I am 

 pleased to hear that the icountry has, at last, determined to recompense 

 him for the outlay he so generously expended in order to establish the coast 

 stations and the observatory on Mount Wellington. I am leaving next week 

 for Cape York Peninsula, and for a long and extended tour of inspection 

 in Central and Northern Queensland generally. If you have anything 

 important to communicate, please write or wire to me at the Post and 

 Telegraph Office, Cooktown, N.Q., until further notice ; but should you 

 have communications that can be dealt with during my absence, please 

 address my first assistant, Mr. Archibald W. Anderson, Chief Weather 

 Bureau, Brisbane. Mr. Anderson will issue the forecasts during the time I 

 shall be away from here. He has been specially trained by me, and I have 

 every possible confidence in his work, Please convey my respectful regards 

 to Sir James Agnew, your vice-president, the members of your Council, 

 and the Fellows of your Society. 



The letter was received. 



THE PRIMARY LAW OP VALUE OR PRICE. 



Mr. VV. Knight, M.A., barrister-at-law, resumed this discussion 

 upon Mr. Johnston's paper by reading a paper in which he criticised 

 Mr. Johnston's views very strongly. Mr, Johnston, he contended, 

 took an extreme view of the principles of the value and the use of 

 gold. The demand for gold was never kept pace with. It had a 

 monopoly value, and therefore Mr. Johnston had not sufficiently 

 taken into account the value of capital. 



