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and other members inspected the drawings closely; but without 
the bones themselves, no satisfactory conclusion could be 
formed. They resemble somewhat the figures given by 
Major Mitchell of the bones of gigantic kangaroos found by 
him in the caverns of Wellington Valley, New South Wales. 
Mr. Gunn says,—-“I send you the drawings of the fossil. The 
original is on its way home. The drawings will speak for them- 
selves. A view from below,—one from above,—a profile, and one 
of each end. I can say nothing about it beyond this, that it is from 
the River Tambo, in Gipps’s Land. From the serpule, in the 
socket of one of the incisors, it would seem that it has been in the 
sea. We cleansed the teeth a little, to show the arrangement of 
the enamelled surfaces, as they were a good deal encrusted. The 
dentition is much like that of a forester kangaroo, but the form of 
the skull varies in some important particulars, as you will see. Mr. 
Becker thinks it was proboscidean: it may, therefore, prove to be 
the Nototherium of Owen—an Australian marsupial proboscidean 
described from fragments of bones too few and imperfect to enable 
us to form any very correct opinion.” 
The Secretary read a letter from the Colonial Secretary, con- 
veying the contents of certain Despatches concerning the Tasmanian 
Contributions to the Industrial Exhibition. Earl Grey did not 
receive the Despatch containing the announcement of Mr. M‘Lach- 
lan’s appointment as agent for this colony, until that which enclosed 
the list of the goods forwarded per Derwent reached him, when his 
Lordship lost not a moment in placing Mr. M‘Lachlan in commu- 
nication with the Queen’s Commissioners, and in giving instructions 
to the Agent-General, Mr. Barnard, to defray all expenses neces- 
sarily incurred in conveyance to the Exhibition Building, and in 
cleaning and preparing the articles for exhibition, &c. 
Sra Octosrr, 1851.—His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison, Presi- 
dent, in the chair. 
The following were elected members of the Society :—J. D. Loch, 
Ludwig Becker, and R. Garrett. Henry Durance Cartwright, Esq., 
of Shanghae, China, was elected a corresponding member. 
The Secretary read a letter from Sir W. T. Denison communi- 
cating to the Society that Mrs. Stanley, widow of the late Captain 
Stanley, R.E., has presented for the library of the Society, twenty 
