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Proceedvurys, 
8tu January, 1851.—Monthly meeting ; Joseph Hone, Ksq., 
senior Member of the Council, in the chair. 
The following gentlemen ballotted for and elected Fellows of the 
Society :— 
Deputy Commissary-General Bishop, 
W. R. Stewart, 
J. A. Huxtable, 
W. J. Huxtable, 
James Arnold Wheeler, A.P.M. of Port Sorell. 
A note from the Rev. T. J. Ewing, intimating that Mr. Gould has 
presented to the Royal Society a copy of the two parts published of 
his valuable monograph on the Macropodide. 
of Hobart Town. 
From His Excellency Sir William Denison was received a copy 
of the Statistics of Van Diemen’s Land for 1849, published by 
authority; also a folio Report on the selection of stone for build- 
ing the new Houses of Parliament; and a publication entitled 
‘‘Suggestions for converting Portland Roads into a Harbour.” 
From Messrs. Orger and Meryon, of London, was received a 
descriptive catalogue of philosophical apparatus, &c. 
The Secretary reported receipt at the Society’s Gardens, per 
Rattler, from Messrs. Lee of Hammersmith, of two cases, con- 
taining only 13 plants alive out of 59 shipped; and of a case sent 
anonymously by the same vessel, in which 17 out of 42 were alive. 
From Mr. T. Y. Lowes was received for the Museum a fish, (not 
named); and from Mr. Winter, of Macquarie-street, a living spe- 
cimen of Gordius, many inches in length, and not thicker than a 
thread, taken in a pool in the Hobart Town Rivulet. 
The Secretary placed on the table several specimens of Chiro- 
