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in South Australia keeps well for many days, and was of opinion that 
they were the same as the OV. edulis of England. 
Mr. Ramsay exhibited a Fossil phalanx of Palworchestes, from Wel- 
lington Caves, from the size of which he calculated that the animal 
must have stood about 15 feet high. Also some Devonian shells and 
corals from the same district, in which the lime had been replaced by 
silica, and which had been cleared from the matrix by the application 
of muriatic acid. 
Dr. Cox also exhibited a plant (undetermined) in cultivation by 
Mr. Scholtz, of Hunter street, in which the flowers had been succeeded 
by bulbils as in Fourcroya gigantea. Alsoa large femur of Dinornss 
robustus from Christchurch, New Zealand. 
Mr. Masters exhibited very large and heavy wooden swords from 
Herbert River, Queensland, resembling boomerangs in shape, together 
with unusually wide hielemans or shields from the same district. Also 
a waddy or club, with the head thickly set with hobnails. 
Mr. Hirst exhibited a centipede (Heterostoma) 10 inches long, and 
about 3-inch broad, from the Herbert River. 
The President drew attention to a singular case of germination of 
the seeds of an orange within the uninjured fruit before its removal 
from the tree. The testa was broken, the cotyledons enlarged, free, and 
green, and the plumule and radicle well developed. 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA. 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
Hobart, January 26th, 1885.—-Mr. James Barnard, Vice-President, 
in the chair. 
New Fellows.—Mr. Geo. Richardson and the Rev. F. Shann. 
ABSTRACT OF REPORT. 
Throughout the session of 1884 the attendance of Fellows at the 
evening meetings has been larger, and the papers brought forward have 
been more numerous than in any previous period. The papers read 
numbered 31, and included—3 botanical, 2 astronomical, 12 geological, 
6 zoological, and 8 on general subjects. 
Fifty new Fellows, an unprecedented number, have been elected, 
and six have been lost through death or resignation. One of these 
deaths, that of Mr. Joseph Milligan, claims special notice. If Sir John | 
Franklin must be called the first, Mr. Milligan may certainly be 
reckoned as the second founder of the society. It was entirely owing 
to his exertions that the present building was erected, and it was chiefly 
due to his great abilities and fostering care that at one period the 
society was safely carried through difficulties which threatened its 
existence. The number of Fellows is 150. 
Meteorology.—Meteorological observations have been carried on as 
in last year. . 
