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people of the colony and the Government as to the welcome which 

 would be extended to the Association, because this should be ascertained 

 before the meeting in question, so that the representatives of Tasmania 

 might be in a position to reiterate their previous invitation to the Society 

 to hold its 1892 meeting in Hobart. He moved that the Council wait 

 on the Government, and ascertain what they are willing to do in the 

 matter. 

 The motion was agreed to. 



ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



A subscription list for this Expedition was laid on the table. 



tasman's journal. 



Mr. J. B. W alker read a paper on " Notes on the localities men- 

 tioned in the journal of Tasman's discovery of Tasmania." In this he 

 sketched the two voyages made by Tasman, in the first of which he 

 discovered Tasmania and New Zealand (1642), and in the second of 

 which he explored the west, north-west, and north coasts of Australia 

 and the Gulf of L Carpentaria (1644.) These voyages completed the cir- 

 cumnavigation of New Guinea and Australia. The writer then proceeded 

 to identify the parts of the Coast mentioned by Tasman, and the con- 

 clusion he had arrived at regarding the land fall made by the discoverer 

 was that it was the high lane 1 north of Macquarie Harbour. He then 

 proceeded to discuss the site of Tasman's anchorage on the East Coast 

 near Cape Frederick Henry, and pointed out that the name of Frederick 

 Henry Bay, now applied to part of Storm Bay, was originally given by 

 Tasman to what is now known by the name of Blackman's Bay. 



Mr Mault described a method in which he had traced Tasman's land 

 fall, fixing it slightly further south than Mr. Walker. There were three 

 maps in the British Museum among the additional manuscripts, No. 

 8,946, which had never been published. It would be well if the Govern- 

 ment could be got to publish these. 



NEW TASMANIAN SPIDERS. 



Mr. Mokton stated that he had lately been making a collection of 

 Tasmanian spiders. Some of them he was unableto determine, and had 

 forwarded to Mr. A. T. Urquhart, of New Zealand, the collection for 

 examination. Mr. Urquhart was one of the best authorities in the colonies 

 on spiders,and on examining the collection he had found some new species 

 of the genus Eperidtv five new kinds of that genus, two new species of 

 the genus Thalaosoma, while he had been able to form two new genera 



which he had named Alrea and Gollina. 

 plate of the species referred to. 



Accompanying the paper was a 



OSTRICH FARMING. 



Mr. James Andrew read a paper on the subject of ostrich farming, 

 and the possibilities of successfully introducing this industry into Tas- 

 mania. The remarks set forth were based on personal observation ot 

 wild ostriches, and experience of the management of the bird in a domes- 

 ticated state. After a brief sketch of the bird and its habits, together 

 with some of the uses to which the eggs are put by Bushmen, the writer 

 proceeded to deal with the subject of ostrich farming, and pointed out 

 that the Egyptians wore the first people who had undertaken the taming 

 and utilisation of the bird. The first modern step in this direction 

 occurred rather less than 30 years ago in Cape Colony. It was not 

 necessary to have large enclosures in which to confine the domesticated 

 birds for herding purposes, but each pair required to be separated. 

 The male bird was most pugnacious during the nesting season, and 

 could only be approached in safety with great precaution. The formid- 



