posted on 2023-11-22, 11:32authored byJoseph Milligan, Morton Allport, James W Agnew, Edward Samuel Pickard Bedford
Report of a Sub-Committee appointed at the February Monthly Meeting of the Royal Society, to consider the questions submitted in the note of the Hon. the Colonial Secretary of the 9th of February, 1858, relative to the introduction of Salmon into Tasmania, and the payment of the Parliamentary reward of £500. The Report which was brought up, read, agreed to, and ordered to be communicated to the Government, at a meeting of the Royal Society held on the I6th March, 185S, was transmitted accordingly to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, on the 25th March, 1858.
History
Publication title
Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
Volume
3
Issue
2
Pagination
283-290
Rights statement
In 1843 the Horticultural and Botanical Society of Van Diemen's Land was founded and became the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land for Horticulture, Botany, and the Advancement of Science in 1844. In 1855 its name changed to Royal Society of Tasmania for Horticulture, Botany, and the Advancement of Science. In 1911 the name was shortened to The Royal Society of Tasmania..