Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for the month of July, 1875

The monthly evening meeting of the society was held on Tuesday, 13th July. A large number of Fellows were present; His Excellency the Governor in the chair.
-The Secretary reported that soon after the last evening meeting the Garden Committee, with the Honorable the Colonial Secretary and Minister of Lands and Works, had proceeded to inspect a portion of the Domain-His Excellency remarked that agreeably to the request of the Domain Committee ho had carefully gone over that portion of the Domain lying between the Gardens and Cornelian Bay, and he had also, to some extent, inspected it generally.
-Mr. Grant had no doubt that the planting on the borders of the creek as suggested by His Excellency would be both beneficial and ornamental.
-Mr. Stephens directed the attention of the meeting to specimens of the strata traversed by the prospecting shaft at Spring Bay, which had been forwarded by Mr. Robinson of Triabunna.
-The Secretary read a paper, contributed by Dr. G. Bennett, F. L. S., F.Z.S. of Sydney, a corresponding member of the society, "On the Frilled Lizard (Chlamydosaurus Kingii), of Queensland." -M. Allport, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc., etc., read a paper entitled "Some Further Notes on the Salmon Experiment."