Xliv PROCEEDINGS, AUGUST. 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London, vols. XLII.- 

 III.-IV., No. 168, 18S6 ; Nos. 169-70, 1887.— From the Society. 



Report of the progress and condition of the Botanical Garden's of 

 South Australia during the year 1886.— From the Department. 



Eeport of Board of Trustees of the Queensland Museum for the 

 year 1886. — From the Society. 



Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory for the 

 year 1886. — From the Department. 



Results of rain and river observations made in N.S.W. and part of 

 Queensland during 1886, by H. C. Russell, B.A.— From the Government 

 Astronomer. 



Societe de Geographic, Nos. 16 to 19, 1886, :Nos. 1 to 9, 1887.— From 

 the Society. 



Sitzungesberichte, Heft. IV., 1885, Heft. I-H., 1886.— From the 

 Society. 



Till' Algernes Systematik, VII., " Siphonise."— From the Society. 



Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in 

 Scotland, Vol. XXIX., 1886.— From the Society. 



Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. XV., pt, 1. — From 

 the Society. 



Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of 

 Australasia, Victorian Branch, Vols. Ill, and IV., 1st January, 1885, 

 to 31st December, 1886.— From the Society. 



United States Geological Survey — " Geological History of Lake 

 Lahontan, a quaternary lake of North- Western Nevada, by J. C. 

 Russell. — From the Department. 



Vandstandsobservationer, Heft. IV.— From the Society. 



Victorian Naturalist, Vol. IV., No. 4, August, 1887.- From the 

 Society. 



THE VICTORIAN ROYAL SOCIETY. 



The Secretary read copies of letters sent to the Royal Society of 

 Victoria with reference to the proposed Antarctic exploration, and the 

 following reply :—" Melbourne, 25th July, 1887. I beg leave, with 

 many thanks, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th 

 inst., replying to mine of the 16th ult., and assuring our Antarctic 

 Exploration Committee of the cordial support of the Royal Society 

 of Tasmania in the proposed appeal to the British Association on behalf 

 of renewed Antarctic exploration. My committee held a meeting on the 

 19th inst., when the appeal (which was sent to Admiral Ommanney on 

 the 2nd inst.) and the replies to my circular of the 16th ult. were read, 

 and I was desired to forward to you with a copy of the appeal, the 

 grateful thanks of the committee for the readiness and cordiality of 

 your response. I have just written to Admiral Ommanney again 

 enumerating the Australian societies who have assured us of their 

 concurrence in the appeal to the British association. A resolution 

 was also moved by Baron von Mueller, and carried unanimously, 

 expressive of the profound regret of the committee at the great 

 loss sustained by, not only your Society and the cause of Antarctic 

 exploration, but by colonial science "generally in the untimely death 

 of Mr. Sprent your Deputy Surveyor-General, and I am desired 

 to request you to convey to your Society the tenor of the resolution. 

 Having myself experienced Mr. Sprent's courtesy and valuable assistance 

 in the matter of Antarctic exploration, I can very cordially sympathise 

 with you and your society in our mutual loss, (signed) H. K. Rusden, 

 hon. sec. Royal Society and Australian Antarctic Exploration 

 Committee. 



Accompanying the letter were some notes connected with the pro- 

 ceedings of th3 joint committee appointed by the Royal Society of 



