xviii Proceedings, &c. 



16th June, 1862. 



Ordinary Meeting. 



His Excellency Sir B. Barkly, K.C.B., &c, President, in the chair. 



The gentlemen nominated at the last meeting for Ordinary 

 Membership were balloted for and declared ciuly elected. 



The following contributions were laid on the table, viz. : — " Frag- 

 menta Phytographise Australise," No. 18; " Leitfaden zur Nordi- 

 schen Alterthumsknnde heransgegeben von der koniglichen Gesell- 

 schaft fiir Nordische Alterthnmskunde ;" " Antiquarisk Tidsskrift, 

 udgivet af det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab, 1852 — 1857 ;" 

 " Eeal Sociedad de los Anticuarios del Norte en Copenhague ; " 

 " Soci^te* Royale d'es Antiquaries du Nord ; " " Tilkeg til ' Den 

 Berlingske Tidende ; ' " " Det Kongelige Norkiske Oldskrift- 

 Selskab," " Cabinet d'Antiquites Americaines a Copenhague ; " 

 " Entdeckung America's durch die Norniannen ; " Descubrimiento 

 de America por lps Normandos," "Pioyal Society of Northern 

 Antiquaries of Copenhagen ; " " Hepi Tes KaTCHncevrj? toov ovtio Ka- 

 \ov/iievu)v Upocofiwv ticv Yi^avrwv ; " " Kaladlit Assilialiat, or 

 Woodcuts Drawn and Engraved by Greenlanders ; " &c, &c, all 

 presented by Dr. Mueller. 



(Signed) Henry Barkly, 



18th August, 1862. 



23rd June, 1862. 

 Ordinary Meeting, 

 No quorum. 



Uth July, 1862. 

 Ordinary Meeting. 



H. F. Eaton, Esq., Treasurer, in the chair. 



Communication from His Excellency, the President, expressing 

 regret at his unavoidable absence, but calling attention to a letter 

 which he had received in regard to some rare pigeons (Didunculus 

 strigirostris) from the Navigator's Island, and which the Zoological 

 Society of London were most anxious to procure, offering .£50 per 

 pair for live, and £10 and £12 for skins. His Excellency also for- 

 warded drawings of the pigeons, and stated that he had taken steps 

 to communicate with the mission ship John Williams on the 

 subject. 



