150 Proceedings. 
Upon a ballot taking place, the following members were declared 
duly elected :— 
W. A. Gardner, of Newnham, Launceston. 
C. J. Casey, Launceston. 
Richard Butler, Hobart Town. 
Dr. Moore, New Norfolk. 
Rev. W. R. Wade, Hobart Town. 
Captain Allen, Adelaide. 
W. Lyon, Wellington, New Zealand. 
The following donations to the library were announced :—“ Pro- 
ceedings of the Zoological Society of London” for 1849, with the 
Annual Reports for 1849 and 1850, from the Zoological Society of 
London; and “ Researches on Light,’ by Robert Hunt, from Mr. 
Thomas Browne, of Macquarie-street, Hobart Town. 
The following costly and valuable works have been added by 
purchase since last meeting:—Johnson’s Physical Atlas, folio; 
Gould’s Birds of Asia, 2nd part; Hooker’s Flora Antarctica, 4to; 
Pritchard’s. Infusoria, Prichard’s Researches into the Physical 
History of Mankind. Late Numbers of the Transactions of the 
Geological Society of London, Annals of Natural History, Hooker’s 
Journal of Botany, Transactions of the Agricultural Society of 
Scotland, Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, &c., lay on the table. 
Sir William Denison presented for the Museum a sample of 
washed gold from Bathurst, seut to His Excellency by Mr. Deas 
Thomson, of Sydney. 
An extensive collection of casts and impressions of the following 
genera of shells, &c., procured in a very perfect condition in the 
clay rocks at Cartwright’s Bridge, on the Brown’s River Road, was 
also presented by Sir W. Denison—Producte, Spirifere, Pectenides, 
Platyschisme, Stenopore, &c. &c. 
His Excellency also transferred to the Museum a collection of 
ores of copper, the least familiar of which here is the red oxide, 
procured in the workings going ou at Molong, New South Wales, 
and forwarded by Gother Mann, Esq., of Sydney. 
From Captain M. L. Smith, of Flinders Island, was ‘received a 
bottle of water thoroughly impregnated with sulphuretted hydrogen 
gas, and said to be the produce of a mineral spring there. 
From Captain Tylee, R.E., were received several interesting 
