

ROYAL SOCIETY. 





APKIL, 1890. 



The inaugural meeting of the members of this Society for the session 

 of 1890 was held on April 22nd at the Museum. The President, His 

 Excellency Sir R. G. C. Hamilton, K.C.B., took the chair, and there was 

 a large attendance of Fellows, while the visitors included a number of 

 ladies. 



PROFESSOR HOXLEY. 



The President, on taking the chair, said he was not going to depart 

 from his usual custom of only inflicting one address on the Society at 

 the close of the session by giving an address also at the opening, but 

 there was a matter which he would like to see brought before the 

 Council and members of the Society. They had seen from the tele- 

 graphic news from London that Professor Huxley was on his way to 

 Australia. He was to stop at Teneriffe and thence go on to the Cape, 

 coming on to Australia by one of the Shaw Savill steamers. If that 

 were so Hobart would be the first point in Australia that Professor 

 Huxley would visit, and he thought that the advent of so great a man 

 of science ought to receive some recognition from the Society. He 

 therefore suggested to the Council and Fellows that it was very desirable 

 that on his arrival the Professor should be met with an address from the 

 Society. He would do all he could to induce Professor Huxley to break 

 his journey at Hobart and spend a few days in Tasmania. But even if 

 the Professor was only here during the short time the vessel was in 

 Hobart he still thought they might make arrangements to invite him to 

 the rooms of the Society to receive an address from the Fellows, which 

 he (the President) would be glad to present. (Applause). 



Mr. Alexander Durrand, F.K.M.S., was introduced as a visitor. 



NEW FELLOWS. 

 Rev. E. H. T. Thompson, Messrs. A. W. Gosnell, M.A. 

 Shirley Hales were admitted Fellows of the Society. 



and Robert 



ADDITIONS TO LIBRARY. 



The Secretary, Mr. A. Morton, read the following list of additions 

 to the Library of the Royal Society : — 



Adelaide University Calendar for the Academical Year 1890 (bound). 

 From the Council. 



Anales de la Oficina Meteorologica Argentina, Tomo VII. From the 

 ■Department. 



Anales del Ministerio de Fomento de la Repuhlica Mexicana. From 

 the Society. 



Annales de la Society Royale Malaeologique de Belgique. Current 

 Nos. From the Society. 



Annual Progress Report of the Geological Survey for the year 1888-9, 

 Queensland. From the Government Geologist. 



Anzeirger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathe- 

 matisch Naturwissenschaftliche Classe XXV., 1888. From the Society. 



Astronomische Arbeiten des K. K. Gradmessungs-Bureau, 1, Band, 

 from the Society. 



