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"ObserTations on further regulations 

 made by the Government lor the protec- 

 tion of mutton birds and their eggs'' was 

 the title of a paper read by the Bishop of 

 Tasmania. 



Mr. Geo. M. Thomson, F.L.S., of Dune- 

 din, contributed a paper, giving a descrip- 

 tion of some interesting crustaceans ob- 

 tained at Cape Adare during the recent 

 visit of the Southern Cross. 



THE HOBART REBERVOIB. 



Messrs. C. H. Grant, T. Stephens, and 

 the writer of the paper, Mr. C. B. Target, 

 gave some further observations on the 

 subject. By the aid of a diagram Mr. 

 Thos. Stephens showed the different parts 

 of the reservoirs, and the formation of the 

 surroundines. 



A vote of thanks to the authors of pa- 

 pers having been passed, the meetinp' aa- 

 journed till Monday, the 22nd inst. 



OCTOBER 22, 1900. 



Exhibits. — The president said before 

 the business of the meeting was taken 

 he wished to draw the members' at- 

 tention to a valuable gift that had late- 

 ly been forwarded to him from England 

 as a presentation to the society ; the 

 ^ift consisted of over 200 sketches, 

 mostly water-colour paintings of Tas- 

 manian scenery, Tasmanian aboriginals, 

 -and a number of water-colour sketches 

 of Melbourne and Victorian views, also 

 a water-colour drawing of a panorama 

 of Hobart in 1848. All of the views 

 AV€re done by a gentleman now a resident 

 in London, Mr. F. G. Simpkinson De 

 "Wesselow. This gentleman resided in 

 Hobart during the years 1844 to 1849 

 At that time Mr. De Wesselow had an 

 appointment under the Admiralty at 

 the Magnetic Observatory, then situ- 

 ated near the Botanical Gardens. An- 

 other volume containing a number of 

 sketches, the work of the late Captain 

 Owen-Stanley, R.N., also a gift to the 

 society from Mrs. Charles Stanley, whose 

 busband was at one time Private Seer - 

 tary to Sir William Denison, was ex- 

 bibited. This collection is, without 

 doubt, one of the most valuable gifs 

 yet received by^ the society. Mr. J. 

 W. Beattie exhibited some interesting 

 photographs. Among them was a photo- 

 graph taken from a cast of the Rev. Ro- 

 bert Knopwood's face, also a photograph 

 of the Rev. Dr. Bedford, who succeed- 

 ed the former gentleman at St. David's, 

 and several others. 



Mr. A. Mault read an interest- 

 ing paper, entitled "Hobart Society 

 in 1845."' The account, Mr. 



Mault said, was taken from among 

 the least known ot the elder Dumas's tales, 

 called " The Journal of Madame Giovanni." 

 This journal is professedly written by a 

 French lady, who married a Venetian mer- 

 chant, and who adopts the nora de plume 

 of Giovanni. Though the hand of Dumas is 

 very evident, the reader will soon see 

 that the work is based upon the account of 

 some lady who must have really visited 

 the places that Madame Giovanni describes. 



A hearty \TOte of thanks was accorded to 

 Mr, Mault for his interesting paper. 



Mr. Thos. Stephens, M.A., F.G.S., sub- 

 mitted the following notes : — 



November, 1836. — Captain Lonsdale 

 selected the original settlement-, formed by 

 Mr. Batman on the Yara Vara, as the 

 scite (sic) of the infant metropolis at Port 

 Philip. The Government had commenced 

 building a gaol, and a commissariat store, 

 and the town was named Glenelg, in 

 honour of the Kight Honourable the Secre- 

 tary of State for the Colonies. 



January, 1835. — Mr. G. A. Robinson 

 succeeded in bringing in the whole of the 

 aborigines remaining at large in the colony, 

 eight in number, who joined their relatives 

 at Flinders Island. — Ellislon's Hobart 

 Town Almanack, and Dr. Ross's Van 

 Diemen's Land Annual for 1837. 



The meeting then closed. 



