fumarole varied during two hours between 175° and 180° F. Employing the same rough field tests, I ascertained that watery vapour was the principal substance discharged; no effect was produced on acetate of lead, silver nitrate, or lime-water, and litmus paper was only slightly reddend after a prolonged exposure. No deposits were formed around the orifices of the fumaroles on this hill-summit. The trachytic rock was much decomposed, and a little of the decomposed rock unavoidably fell in, and forms a sediment at the bottom of the bottle. Bottle 339, containing two kinds of fleshy fruits ejected from the crops of pigeons shot by Lieutenants Heming and Leeper, on a small island off the south coast of St. Christoval. I am rather desirous to learn the nature of these fruits, as it bears on the subject of the remarkable rapid appearance of trees and other vegetation on the numerous islets which are now forming on the rising coral reefs which fringe the coast of St. Christoval. The egg-shaped fruit is red, and the round fruit blue, in their natural state. The fruits were afterwards examined by Mr. Moore, F.L.S., who states that he thought the blue fruit to be a species of Elæocarpus, and the red fruit that of a palm, probably a Kentia ; the largest of the three is commonly known as the native almond of the Solomon Islands, but as there are neither leaves nor flowers no determination could be made. About thirty members were present. ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. DONATIONS-1883. (The names of the Donors are in Italics.) TRANSACTIONS, JOURNALS, REPORTS, &C. 1883-84. ABERDEEN :-The Aberdeen University Calendar for the Academical Year, The University. ADELAIDE :-Report of the Progress and condition of the Botanic Garden and Government Plantations during 1882. The Government Botanist. Meteorological Observations made at the Adelaide Observatory during 1880. The Observatory. 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