Proceedings of the Royal Society for the month of April, 1890

The inaugural meeting of the members of this Society for the session of 1890 was held on April 22nd at the Museum. The President, His Excellency Sir R. G. C. Hamilton, K.C.B., took the chair, and there was a large attendance of Fellows, while the visitors included a number of ladies. The President wished to induce Professor Huxley to visit Hobart as part of his journeyto Australia. He was to stop at Teneriffe and thence go on to the Cape, coming on to Australia by one of the Shaw Savill steamers. arrangements should be made to invite him to the rooms of the Society to receive an address from the Fellows, which he (the President) would be glad to present. New fellows were elected to the Society, Mr. Morton read the list of additions to the library, particular attention was paid to the presentation of the ninth edition of the "Encyclopredia Britannica" by His Excellency. Mr. JAMES BARNARD, Vice-President of the Society provided a summary of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, which was held in Sydney in 1888. Mr. J.B. walker read a paper on "The discovery and occupation of Port Dalrymple". Mr. A. Durrand, Fellow of the Royal Microscopical,Society, London, exhibited a select series cf microscopical preparations of foraminifera and other minute marine organisms from soundings made at depths from five fathoms to about two miles among the islands of the Hawaiian Group, Coast of Java, Channel Islands (Guernsey), Ireland