xlii PROCEEDINGS, AUGUST. 



AUGUST, 1887. 

 The usual monthly meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania was 

 held on August 15. There was a fair attendance of Fellows, and the chair 

 was occupied by the President, His Excellency Sir Robert Hamilton, 

 K.C.B., who came accompanied by Miss Hamilton, Miss Harvey, and 

 Mr. H, W. B. Robinson, the private secretary. 



List of additions to the library during the month of July last ; — 



Abhandlungen der Mathematisch Physikalischen Classe, der Koniglich 

 Bayerishchen, Akademie der Wissenchaften Filnfzehnten Bandes. — 

 From the Society. 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution; 

 for the year 1884. — From the Department. 



Anales de la Oficina Meterologica, Tome V. — From tha Department. 



Boletim da Sociedada de Geographia di Lisbon 6a eerie Nof. 9, 10, 

 and 11. — From the Society. 



Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 

 Vol. XIIL, No. 4— Studies from the Newport Marine Laboratory,. 

 XVIII. , on the Development of the Calcareous Plates of Amphiura, by 

 J. W. Fewkes. — From A. Agassiz. 



Bulletin of the Essex Institute, vol. 17, Nos. I to 12, January to 

 December, 1885. — From the Society. 



Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. 2, No. 5, 

 September, 1886. — From the Society. 



Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 1, No. 8. 

 — From the Society. 



Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey, No. 27 — Work done 

 in the division of chemistry and physics, mainly during the fiscal year 

 1884-85. No. 28 — The Gabbros and Hunblende Rooks occuring in the 

 neighbourhood of Baltimore, M.D. No. 29 — One, the freshwater in- 

 vertebrates of the associated North American Jurassic. No. 30 — 

 Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian Faunas of North 

 America. No. 31 — Systematic review of our present knowledge of fossil 

 insects, including Myriapods and Arachnids. No. 32— Mineral springs 

 of the United States. — From the Society. 



Bulletin de la Soci^t^ de Geographic, 7 serie, 1 to 4, 1886.— From 

 the Society. 



Catalogue general Argentine. — From the Society. 



Essex Institute Historical Collection, Vol. XXL, January to De- 

 cember, 1884; Vol. XXII., January to December, 1885. — From the 

 Society. 



Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, seventh Annual Report, 1886-7 ;. 

 list of members, etc. — From the Society, 



Gedachtnissrede auf Carl Theodor V. Subold. — From the Society. 



Gold Fields of Victoria, reports of the Mining Registrars for the 

 quarter ended 31st March, 1887. — From the Department. 



Homenagem a Luciano Cordeiro, 16 Maio, 1888. — From the Society. 



Inhaltsverzenehniss der Litzungsberichte, 1871, 1885. — From the 

 Society. 



Journal of the Linna^an Society, vol. 19-21, Nos. 114, 116, 126-8, 

 "Zoologi;" vols. 22, Nos. 146-8, " Botany."— From the Society. 



Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. 34, 1885-6. — From the Society. 



Journal of the Trenton Natural History Society, No. 2, January^ 

 1887.— From the Society. 



Journal of the Royal Historical and Archeological Association of 

 Ireland, vol. VII., 4th series, October, 1885, No. 64; January, 1886. 

 No 65 ; April, 1886, No. 66 : July, 1886, No. 67 ; October, 18S6, No. 68j 

 January, 1887, No. 69.— From the Society. 



