Proceedings for the month of July, 1854

Proceedings of the Monthly Meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania held on the 12th July, 1854, His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison, President, in the chair; Dr. Agnew, Dr. Butler, M.L.C., Dr. Hall, Dr. McCarthy, Colonel Last, Lieutenant Lochner, R.E., Messrs. Champ, Hone, R. Butler, Gould, H. Hull, D. T. Kilburn, Mac Naughtan, T. Moore, G. Makeig, Moss, Rolwegan, Vautin, Whitcomb. The following gentlemen having been ballotted for were declared duly elected Fellows of the Society :—Thomas Cruttenden, of Woodsden ; Joseph Ward, of Fingal ; Malcolm Laing Smith, of Flinder's Island. His Excellency the President read a note from Mr. Francis Cotton, of Kelvedon, Swanport, drawing attention to the unusual character of the season, as evidenced by the fact, that in the first week of this month the raspberry plants in his garden were covered with blossom and fruit in dififerent stages of growth up to ripeness in several instances ; that many of his roses were then in full blossom, and that the sweet briar hedges presented quite a gay appearance, Mr. Cotton observing, " nothing of the kind has occurred before in our experience, which extends over twenty-five years in this hemisphere." Sir W. Denison added, that in Dr. Hampton's garden the pear trees had not only blossomed a second time, but produced a second crop of well-formed fruit. Several members adduced similar recent instances of blossom on fruit trees, rose trees, &c