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REPOR T. 



The Council of the Royal Society of Tasmania have 

 much pleasure in submitting- the following Report for 

 1890 :— 



The first monthly meeting took place on April 22nd, 

 when the President, His Excellency Sir R. G. C. 

 Hamilton, K.C.B., occupied the chair. The attendance 

 of Fellows, including several ladies, was large. Mr. 

 James t Barnard gave an account of the visit of the 

 Representatives of this Society to the Melbourne meeting 

 of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. Mr. J. B. Walker read an interesting paper 

 on the " Discovery and Occupation of Port Dalrymple." 

 Mr. R. M. Johnston presented a joint report from himself 

 and Mr. A. Morton on a ganoid fish from the lower 

 mesozoic sandstones near Tinder Box Bay ; and Mr. A. 

 Durrand, F.R.M.S. London, exhibited a series of fine 

 microscopical preparations of foraminifera and other 

 minute organisms dredged from depths of from five 

 fathoms to two miles, near the coasts of the Hawaian 

 Group, Java, the Channel Islands, Ireland, fee. The 

 number of papers read during the session was twenty- 

 three. The subjects were : — 



By Mr. J. B. Walker. 



1. "The Discovery and Occupation of Port Dal- 

 rymple." 



2. "An Account of the last Antarctic Expedition." 



3. " Notes on the localities mentioned in the Journal 

 of Tasman's discovery of Tasmania." 



By Mr. R. M. Johnston, F.L.S. 



4. " Description of a second Ganoid Fish from the 

 mesozoic sandstones near Tinder Box Bay." 



