Proceedings of the Royal Society for the month of July, 1876

Abstract

The monthly evening meeting of the Society was held on Tuesday, the 11th July, His Excellency, F. A. Weld, Esq., C.M.G., President, in the chair. Mr. Barnard exhibited a section of the stem of a cherry tree showing the burrow, several inches in length, of a destructive caterpillar, with the animal still in situ. Mr. Barnard had noticed a blight on the cherry tree for the first time last year, but this was the first occasion on which he had seen the caterpillar. It would he of great interest, he thought, to determine the character of the moth which would eventually be produced. The Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods, after giving a very clear and exhaustive address on the history of Australian Geology, read a paper by Mr. R. M. Johnston entitled, "Notes on the Tertiary Marine Deposits of Tasmania." Mr. Stephens said that the Table Cape fossiliferous beds had been mentioned by Strzelecki as a "raised beach bedded on basalt; "but that he had shown in a paper read before the Society in 1869, after a cursory inspection of the locality, that they were clearly older than the basalt, and that the fossils proved them to be connected with the tertiary deposits of Victoria".