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Mis Excellency the President read a Despatch from Earl Grey, with an 
enclosure from the Queen’s Commissioners, expressing the sense enter- 
tained of the important aid rendered to the Great Exhibition by eleven (in 
which Committees were formed) out of forty-three colonies, and promising 
to forward copies of the list of awards by the juries, and of the Illustrated 
Catalogue, &e. 
Sir William Denison also read a Despatch intimating the Qucen’s 
gracious acceptance of the first volume of Papers and Proceedings ofthe 
Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land, handsomely bound in Colonial 
material for the purpose, forwarded through His Excellency the Lieutenant- 
Governor, by order of the Council of the Society. 
The President stated that the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 
of London has been forwarded through the Colonial Office for this Society. 
The Secretary reported receipt of a Copy of the Report, List of 
Members, &¢., and a volume of Proceedings of the Royal Institution 
of Great Britain in return for “‘ Papers and Proceedings” of the Society. 
A letter, addressed to the Secretary by Sir H. Ellis, read, conveying the 
thanks of the Trustees of the British Museum for such of the Tasmanian 
contributions to the Exhibition of 1851 as were ordered to be deposited in 
the National Museum upon the final closing of the Exhibition. 
A letter read by the Secretary from Mr. M‘Lachlan, agent for Tas- 
manian contributions to the Great Exhibition of 1851, enclosing for the 
Society a list of awards of juries, published by authority. Mr. M‘Lachlan 
deserves the thanks of the colony for the close and unwearied attention 
he has given to their interests on this great occasion. 
Chester Eardley-Wilmot, Esq., reported having been entrusted by Mr, 
Wheeler with a spirit preparation of Pennatula (grisea?) for the Museum 
—a fine specimen, and in a good state of preservation—obtained on the 
sea-beach at Port Sorell. 
Dr. Lillie presented specimens from Mount Alexander, Victoria, of 
clay-slate with mica, taleose clay-slate, and granite in a state of partial 
disintegration. 
Dr. Lillie also presented from Mr. David Ritchie a specimen of red 
coral, and a large aboriginal fishing-hook, made from the shell of Melea- 
grina margaritifera, from Caroline Island, one of Patterson’s Group. 
Specimens of quartz, clay-slate, ferruginous conglomerate, &c., from the 
Great Bend of the Gordon River, were received from Mr. Henry Cotton, of 
the Survey Department. 
From Mr. Berthon, of Green Ponds, was received a rich specimen of 
ferruginous schist, belonging apparently to the clay-slate and mica schist 
system of rocks,—one of several fragments found on the estate of Woodlands, 
but not tn situ. - 
