Proceedings of the Royal Society for the month of June, 1879

The monthly evening meeting of the Society was held on Monday, the 9th June. His Excellency the Governor in the chair.
The Secretary read a paper "On some Tasmanian Trochidae," by the Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S., Cor. Mem. Roy. Socs.
Tas., N.S. Wales, Victoria, and the N. Zealand Institute.
His Excellency informed the meeting, as indicative of the attention now paid in other parts of the world to the Blue Gum, that he had recently received from the Consul General of Algeria a request for a supply of the seed. The request would immediately be complied with, and seed of the Silver Wattle would be forwarded at the same time.
Mr. E. Swan had noticed in a recent paper that the introducing of the Blue Gum to the Cape of Good Hope or to America had been attended with the drawback that certain insects had accompanied it, which had proved destructive to many of the indigenous trees.
might afford some interesting information on this subject.
The Secretary read a highly complimentary notice of the Society from the Australasian of the 7th instant, in a review of the published proceedings for 1877.
No meeting held in July, in consequence of the death of Sir Robert Officer, Vice-President.