Proceedings of the Royal Society for the month of June, 1894

The usual monthly meeting of the Royal Society was held on Monday, June 11, under the presidency of the Hon. C, H. Grant, M.L.C. The Secretary (Mr. A. Morton) tabled a work entitled " A voyage towards the South Pole performed in the years 1822-24, containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea to the 74deg. of latitude," by James Weddell, Esq., presented by the Rev. J. B. W. Woollnough, M.A., M.H.A.; also " Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1893." The Secretary drew attention to an innovation in the latter volume, consisting of the inclusion of a form of bequest on the lines adopted by many leading scientific societies. Mr. Kingsmill said : The object of my paper, titled Medridian observations with the Hobart Transit instruments, is to bring under your notice a piece of astronomical work done at the Hobart Observatory, in the first instance by myself, and afterwards more completely by Captain Cust, of the Dart. This work was the determination of the meridian of the Hobart transit instrument by means of star observations taken with the instrument itself. Mr. L. Rodway read some botanical notes on new and rare plants, the chief interest centering on a further description of a eucalyptus (described in 1886 by Mr. T. B. Moore, and named Eucalyptus muelleri, after Baron von Mueller), from specimens found on the southern slope of Mount Wellington, just below the Springs, where the tree attains a height of 200ft. and more.