XXXV 



Dr. B. Carrington, M.D., F.R.S.E., Eocles., Lancashire, England 

 and Mr. W. H. Peason, Manchester. Drs. Hardy and Wolfhagen' 

 ot Hobart, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The following donations to the library were announced : — 



American Agriculturist, August. 



Annals and Magazines of Natural History, No. C III., July. 



Athenaeum, June. 



Boletim da Sociedade de 

 9, 10.— From 



Geographia de Lisbon, 5th series, No. 

 _ the Society. 



Bollettinodella Societa Geografica Italina, serie II., vol. XI.-— Prom 

 the Society. 



Bulletin de la Societe Royal de Botanique de Belgique Tome Vingt — 

 Cinqineme Fascicule Premier Ann<5e, 1886. 



Bulletin de' la Societe Imperial des Naturalistes de Moscow, 

 JNo. 1.— Prom the Society. 



Bulletin du Mus6e Royale d' Histori Naturelle de Belgique Tome 

 IV-, No. 2.— Prom the Society. 



Catalogue of the Library of the Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales.— From the Society. 



Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, sixth annual report, 1886.-— From 

 the Society. 



Geological Magazine, July. 



Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, No. 3, vol. I., 

 •July.— From the Society. 



Journal of the Society of Arts, June. 



Mineral Statistics of Victoria for the year 1885. Report of 

 Secretary of Mines to the Hon. J. L. Dow.— From the department. 



Nature, June. 

 ...Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, Toronto, third series, 

 lJ L, No. 4, June, 1886.— Prom the Society. 



Troceeilings of theLinnean Society of New South Wales (second 

 series), Vol. 1, Pt. the second.— From the Society. 



Provincial Medical Journal, Vol. 5, No. 55.— From the Editor. 



Societe do Geographic, Nos. 12, 13, 1886.- From the Society 



btudien iiber Thonschiefer Gangthonschiefer und Sericitschiefer. 1 

 jj-honschiefer und Gangthonschiefer des Oberharzes, by Von Herrin 



y^ on Greo l a' ec k in Clausthal. — From the author. 



Statistical Register of the colony of Victoria for the year 18S5, Pt. 

 "'Population, Pt. III. Finance, etc.— Prom the department. 



-Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1885. 

 XVIII. Do. do. Index. Vols. I. to XVIL— From the Institute. 

 Asiatic Society of Japan. Vol. XIV., Pt. I. — 



toe 



Vol. 



E 



Ti 



ransactions of the 

 "om the Society. 



Uber die Gesteine 

 woddeck. 



der Bindt 

 .. -From the author. 

 Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft 

 AJ TL, No. 6.— From the Society. 

 Victorian Naturalist. Vol. III., 

 -^ur Kcnntniss der 

 -■-asmauien. 



in Ober Ungarm. By Von. A. 

 Fur Erdkunde Zu Berlin Band. 



No. 4. Aug. — From the Society. 

 Zinnerzlagerstatten des Mount Bischoff i 

 By Von. A. Groddeek. — From the author. 



THE PROPOSED ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION". 



re '* er waa read from the Premier covering a communication 



^ceived from the Premier of Victoria, enquiring whether the 



overnment of Tasmania would be disposed to join in the cost of 



sci Patolun 2 an expedition to the Antarctic regions in the interests of 



ence and commerce. The Premier noticed that the subject would 



gage the attention of the Fellows, and desired an expression of their 



Vl *s theron. 



