148 Proccedings. 
was read, announcing that a set of the Proceedings of that Society 
had been arranged for transmission to the Royal Society of Van 
Diemen’s Land. 
The Secretary placed before the meeting a specimen of Jbacus 
Peronii, obtained on a small island at the mouth of Port Sorell, and 
presented by Mr. Wheeler; also a specimen of Pennatula grisea, a 
coral insect, found by the same gentleman on the sea shore at Port 
Sorell, and probably noticed here for the first time. 
The Secretary reported that a packet of seeds of Australian 
plants, comprising 70 species, had been received at the Society’s 
Garden’s from the lady of Major-General Wynyard; that His Excel- 
lency Sir William Denison had sent to the gardens a packet con- 
taining 160 species of seeds; that a packet of 133 species of seeds 
had been received from Kew Gardens, through Mr. Francis Butler ; 
that a case containing 29 plants in pots had been forwarded to 
Dr. Storey, of Swan Port; and that the Count D’Harcourt had taken 
charge of a packet for the Botanic Garden at Tahiti, containing 
22 species of Cape bulbs and 30 species of Tasmanian seeds. 
A handsome specimen of coral and a piece of pumice stone, said 
to have been obtained at Norfolk Island, were forwarded to the 
Museum by Sir William Denison. 
Mr. M‘Naughtan presented a section of one of the strands of 
copper wire (coated round to the thickness of half an inch with 
gutta percha) laid between England and France for the electric 
teleeraph: the specimen had been obtained at the time the line was 
ruptured. Its examination excited a good deal of interest in the 
meeting. 
Mr. W. P. Kay sent a fragment of gray granite from Goose 
Tsland, in Bass’s Strait, which was much admired, and considered to 
be the most durable and fit material for public buildings in these 
Colonies. 
From the Rev. J. Fereday, of George Town, were received speci- 
mens of lignite, clay-schist, &c., obtained in sinking at Kelso at a 
depth of 25 feet. 
Mr. James L. Burnett presented the stuffed skin of a bird shot 
upon Cheshunt, the estate of William Archer, Ksq., which bears a. 
closer resemblance to the Synoicus sordidus’than to any of the quails 
of Tasmania, as figured by Gould. 
Mr. Propsting presented a stuffed specimen of the Nankin bird, 
