Proceedings of the Royal Society for September and October, 1874

Owing to the extreme inclemency of the weather no meeting was held for the month September 1874.
The October monthly evening meeting of the Society was held on Tuesday, the 13th October. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Tasmania in the chair.
From J, K. Clarke, Esq.—Specimens of Quartz penetrated by crystals of Rutile, from Queensland.
[The Secretary requested the attention of the meeting to these beautiful and peculiar crystal, and at the same time read a description of it from Dana's Mineralogy. ] His Lordship, the Chairman, read a paper on "The Law of Storms." Mr. Napier, after bringing under notice the circumstance that the Gardens were closed at an hour (6 p.m.) when many persons would like to visit them, begged to know if any means could be adopted for keeping them open a little later.
Mr. P. T. Smith begged to ask if it was within the sphere of the Society's action to do anything for the Domain. Here were large public grounds set apart for the necessary recreation and health of the inhabitants, left in a perfectly disgraceful condition, and a spot which, by the exercise of taste and skill, might be made equal to anything of the kind in the world, was utterly neglected. It was in the highest degree discreditable to all concerned.