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domiciles, more or less beset externally with filamentous matter, 

 somewhat resembling that characteristic of the Aphides. Mr. Dobson 

 placed before the meeting a series of carefully executed coloured 

 drawings illustrative of the subject. Twigs and leaves of Eucalyptus 

 were produced bearing myriads of the white cones, which are 

 probably identical with those said to prevail so abundantly at certain 

 seasons in Australia Felix— called Lerp, and eaten by the aborigines, 

 — and which has been noticed in the Edinburgh Philosophical Jour- 

 nal for July, 1849, as a new species of Manna, &c. 



Mr. Milligan read the following note from the Rev. S. B.Windsor, 

 Warden of the College, Bishopsbourne, giving results, in 1850, from 

 the operation of budding rose-trees in 1849, 



" Chrisfs College, 9tk September, 1850. 



" My Dear Sir, — I met with rather a remarkable fact the other day, 

 which you may perhaps feel interested in knowing. Last November I budded 

 several rose trees in the College garden, a good many of which took well and 

 flowered that season ; several did not, as I thought, take at all ; of these last 

 I cut away some, and left others as they were. To my surprise I find this 

 spring that almost every one of those which I left have taken, and are now 

 shooting healthily into leaf, I have been in the constant habit of budding for 

 nearly twelve years ; but never witnessed a like phenomenon. To what would 

 you attribute this? Have any more practical gardeners ever met with it ; or 

 is it quite unprecedented ; and has the early spring anything to do with 

 producing it? A mild winter, I should say, it has not been. We have had 

 very little rain, but some of the most severe frosts which I ever remember in 

 this country since ray arrival.— My dear Sir, faithfully yours, 



" S. B. Windsor. 



"Joseph Milligan, Esq." 



After conversation on various topics before the meeting, thanks 

 were unanimously accorded to Mr. Dobson for bis interesting paper, 

 and to the several parties bringing donations. The Chairman vacated 

 his seat J and the meeting broke up about nine o'clock. 



9iH October. — Monthly evening meeting ; the Rev. John Lillie, 

 D.D., a Vice-President of the Society, in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected: — L. C. 

 Stevenson, Esq., John Watson, Esq., of Hobart Town; Francis 

 Evans, Esq., Launceston. 



The following presentations were made to the Library : — In the 

 name of Dr. Fitton, forwarded through Dr. Pugh of Launceston, a 

 copy of Sir Henry De la Beche's Address to the Geological Society 



