THE FOUNDATION AND EARLY WORK OF THE 

 SOCIETY ; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF EARLIER 

 INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETIES IN TASMANIA. 



(Plates xiji. - xx.) 



By E. L. Piesse, B.Sc, LL.B., 



Houorarj Acting Secretarv. 



(Read on 13tli October, 1913, at a Meeting held in cele- 

 bration of the Seventieth Anniversary of the Society.) 



I. — Earlier Institutions and Societies 



The Van Diemen's Land Agricultural Society 



(1821) 118 



The Ian Diemens Juand Scientific Society iV^t^) 119 



The Colonial Gardens (1818) ... ... ... 1-20 



The Mechanics' histitution of Holart (1826) ... 123 



The Hohart Town Horticultural Society (1839) 123 



The T^asvianian Society (1838) ... ... ... 124 



The Franklin Museum, Ancanihe (1842) ... 131 



The Terniinaiion of Sir fohn Franklin's Goveimor- 



ship ... 133 



IL — 27z^ Royal Society of Tasmania, 1843-8 



The Foundation of the Society, 14th Oct., 1843 136 



The Society /ram 1843 to 1848 142 



The Tasrnanian Society, 1848-8 ... ... 146 



111.— The Society from 1848 to 1863 



The Expansion of the Society, 1848 147 



The Membership 152 



The Museum and Library ... ... ... 153 



The Papers and Froceedifigs ... ... ... 157 



The Gardens 157 



Meteorological Observations ... ... ... 159 



International Exliibitio7ts ... ... ... 159 



Fisheries ... ... ... ... ... ... 159 



The Secretaries ... ... ... ... ... 160 



The New Museum 160 



Appe7idix. — 



The Tasmanian Society in August, 1843 ... 162 



The Inaugural Meeting, Vith October, 1843 ... 163 



List of Officers 166 



