PROCEEDINGS, MAY. 



MAY, 1890. 



The monthly meeting of this Society was held at the Museum on 

 Tuesday, May 20th, the President, His Excellency Sir Robert G. C. 

 Hamilton, K.C.B., tcok the chair. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows ■- 

 J. W. Beattie, Alfred T. Bell, and H. Foster. 



■Messrs. A. B. Howell, 



THE LIBRARY. 



The Secretary, Mr. A. Morton, submitted the following list of addi- 

 tions to the Library during the month of April : 



Bollettino della Societa Geografica Italiana, ' Fasciolo II., February 

 and March, 1890. From the Society. 



Boletin Mensual del Observatorio, Meteoroloaico del Colegio Pio de 

 Villa Colon. From the Department. 



Boletin del Institute GeograBca Aigentino, Tomo X Cuad X Bueno 

 Aires. From the Society. 



Flora of British India. Pt. XVI. By Sir J. D. Hooker. From the 

 Department. 



Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, Alfred B. C. 

 Selwyn, C.M.G., etc., Director. Annual Reports (new series). Vol. 



S L ,'Tz P r t 'J\T«Q P rr rtS ',o^- B - C ' D - H - F - 188 ?-8. P c - It Reports, 

 tt.J.K.UMJN.K.b.I., I8S7-8. Maps, etc., to accompany Annual 

 Reports, Vol. III., 1887-S. From the Department. 



Handbook of cyclone storms in the Bay of Bengal, for the use of 

 sailors. ByJ. Lhot, M.A. From the Meteorlogical Department. 



Horsburgh s Last India Pilot, containing a number of old Charts, 

 London 18l7, also Table des Cartes et Plans, contenus dans LAtlas du 

 voyage aux Terres Australia, 1801 to 1808. From the Hon. Attorney 

 General. 



Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, Vol. XL, part 

 III., October, 1888. From the Society. 



Kongl. Svenska Velenskaps— Akademiens Handlingar Bandet 23, 

 Mo. 3. Species feargassorum Australian, Descriptor et Dispoaitaj 

 accedunt de singulis Partibus. Sargassorum Earumque Differentiis 

 Morphoiogicis in diversis speciebus observationee nonnullte, nee non 

 dispositions specierum omnium generis his differentiis Fundatce. 

 Penculum, Auctore J. G. Agardb, cum XXXI., Tabulis. From the 

 Society. 



Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Vol. XV1L JNo. 1. ihe immature state of the Odonata. Pt. III. 

 Sub-family Cord ulma. By Louis Cabot. (Plates.) From A. Agassiz. 



Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Pah-eontologica Indica, 

 being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during 

 the progress of the Geological Survey of India. Ser. XIII. Salt 

 Range dossils. V oL I V. , pt. I. Geological Results. By W. Waagen, 

 Ph. D. From the Department. 



Monthly Weather Review, Meteorological Service Dominion of 

 Canada. (Current Nos.) From the Department. 



Monthly Weather Review, U.S. War Department. (Current Nos.) 

 From the Department. 



Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. L., No. 4, 

 February, 1890. From the Society. 



Report on the worm disease affecting the oysters on the coast of 

 N.S.W., by T. Whitelegge, F.R.M.S., April, 1890. From the 

 Fisheries Department. 



