XXXIV PROCEEDINGS, JULY. 



Photographof nest and eggsof the mountain thrush of Victoria. From 

 Mr. E. D. Swan. 



Records of the Geographical Survey of India, Vol. XX., Part II., 

 1887. From the Society. 



Results of a Census of the colony of New Zealand taken for the 

 night of March 20, 1886. Education. From the Department. 



Statistics of the colony of New Zealand for the year 1887, Part 

 III. Trade and Interchange. 



Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Flir Erdkunde Zu Berlin, Band 

 XIX., No. 1, 1887. From the Society. 



Victorian Naturalist. July. From the Society, 



THE PROPOSED ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



The secretary (Mr. A. Morton), stated that during the past two 

 or three months the council had corresponded with the Royal 

 Society of Victoria in regard to the Antarctic exploration. A 

 meeting of this Society had appointed a deputation to wait upon the 

 Premier, and since that deputation had waited upon the Premier, the 

 following telegram had been received : — " Admiral Sir Erasmus 

 Ommaney, secretary to the Antarctic Committee of the British 

 Association, writes, urging all learned and scientific societies through- 

 out Australia, to send a united appeal to promote Antarctic 

 exploration. Is your Society willing to join in such an appeal ? Please 

 reply without delay. Probably you will not find it necessary to call a 

 special meeting to justify you in replying generally. (Signed), A. 

 C. Macdonald, hon. secretary Antarctic Committee, Melbourne," 

 His Excellency the President then called a special meeting 

 of the Council, and a reply was forwarded, stating that the 

 Council had decided to follow up the action already take ' and to 

 join in the appeal, and enclosing papers to show what had already 

 been done. 



SPECIAL scientific MEETINGS AT ADELAIDE. 



The secretary read the following letter from the secretary of Royal 

 Society of South Australia : — 



" Parkside, South Australia : — To the Hon. Sec. Royal Society, 

 Tasmania. — Sir, — An effort is being made by the council of the Royal 

 Society of South Australia to arrange for special meetings of scientific 

 men, and for excursions in which would be of special interest to 

 naturalists and geologists, partly in conjunction with, and partly in 

 addition to the meetings of the Studical Congress, which are to take 

 place in Adelaide at the end of August of this year. These meetings 

 are not intended to in any way anticipate the proposed Australasian 

 Association for the advancement of science, but are to be informal. 

 The council think that the meetings of the congress and the Jubilee 

 Exhibition will afford specially good opportunities for such meetings. 

 As an additional attraction the council have arranged with the South 

 Australian Government to permit members of your society to travel 

 over the South Australian railways at that time at half rates on pro- 

 duction of a member's ticket. Negotiations are in progress with the 

 Governments of New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, with 

 the view of obtaining a similar concession, and my council have very 

 little doubt but that they will be granted. Although the arrangements 

 have not yet been completed, it has been thought advisable to draw 

 your attention to what has been done, with a view to bringing the 

 proposal before your members at as early a date as possible. I shall 

 be glad to hear from you whether any of your members are likely to 

 avail themselves of the opportunity. On receipt of your reply, stating, 

 if possible, the probable number, I will forward to you blank cards 



