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Proceedings. 
lira Fepruary, 1852.—Monthly mecting; Joseph Hone, Esq., Senior 
Member of Council present, in the Chair. 
The following gentlemen were ballotted for and declared duly elected 
Members of the Society :-— 
Tho Rev. Charles Price, of Launceston; William Archer, Esgq., of 
Brickendon; J. R. Kenworthy, Esq., M.D., of Cambock; Richard Truro, 
Ksq., and William Dawson, Esq., of Hobart Town. 
The Secretary notified the following presentations to the Library of the 
Society ;—By order of His Excellency Sir William Denison,—One quarto 
volume of “ Magnetical and Meteorological Observations at Toronto, 
made in 1840-41-42; printed by order of H. M. Government, under 
the superintendence of Lieut.-Colonel E. Sabine, R. A.:—also the Report 
of the “ Geological Survey of India for 1849,” forwarded by the Indian 
Government. The “Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural 
Society of India,” part 2, vol. vii., received from the Society at Calcutta. 
A pamphlet containing a notice of the Dinornis and other birds, rock 
specimens, &c., collected in New Zealand by Walter Mantel, Esq., received 
from Mr. Mantel. A list of the Ferns cultivated at Kew Gardens in 1845, 
by Mr. J. Smith, Curator, received from Ronald C. Gunn, Esq. From Mr. 
i. Hull, an account of the “ Anniversary Meeting of Antiquaries at 
Copenhagen in 1850 and 1851.” 
L. Becker, Esq., presented to the Museum some rounded fragments of 
Greenstone, obtained under the sand a little beyond high water-mark near 
Wedge Bay, and having a bronze-like metallic covering, which Mr. Becker 
considers is Sulphuret of Iron, with probably Iodine or Bromine in com- 
bination. Mr. B. observes that sulphur is an abundant product on the 
sea shore, sulphureous gases being frecly disengaged during the decom- 
position of the sca-weeds, and that Iron is derived yet more abundantly 
from the land. Mr. Becker also presented specimens of Fossil Wood from 
the sandstone over the coal at ‘ High Plains,” near Hamilton, and of 
conglomerate containing Opal, &c., from nearly the same locality. 
Mr. 8. Moses presented a well-preserved and very perfect cranium of a 
Walrus, Vrichechus rosmarus, (Lin.) from Behring’s Straits, where it was 
slaughtered by Esquimaux, in presence of the crew of the Prince Regent, 
by the Captain of which vessel it was afterwards purchased and prepared 
for the Museum. 
My. Alfred Moses presented two complete Esquimaux dresses ; one made 
of the skin of the Rein-decr, well tanned with the fur outwards; the other 
