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His Excellency Sir W. Denison sent to the meeting four samples of 
dressed flax, of which three are the growth of 1852, forwarded for the 
purpose by Captain Dixon, of Skelton Castle, on whose estate it was 
produced. 
A specimen of the combustible schist (Dysodile ?) from the Mersey River, 
forwarded some time ago to Lieut. Clarke by Mr. Wheeler, of Port Sorell, 
presented. 
Mr. Hull placed on the table a fossil shell (Spirifer) from Tolosa, with 
its spiral appendages very perfectly preserved. Mr. H. submitted to the 
meeting a detailed statement of the behaviour of an Aneroid Barometer 
(one of the best in possession of His Excellency Sir W. Denison), during 
an ascent of Mount Wellington on the 8th instant, by which the elevation 
of the mountain was made to: agree with that fixed for it by Count 
Strzelecki. 
Discussions followed, and a paper (part of a series) was read by Thomas 
Dobson, Esq., of the High School, on the Origin and Direction of Storms 
and Hurricanes, and their connexion with active Volcanoes and Earth- 
quakes, and the recognized chains of volcanic action, illustrated with Maps 
and Diagrams. 
The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Dobson, and to the 
persons sending communications, specimens, and books, and the meeting 
broke up a little before ten o'clock. 
9rH JuNE, 1852.—Monthly meeting; Joseph Hone, Esq., Senior Mem- 
ber of Council, in the chair. 
The following gentlemen were ballotted for and duly elected Fellows 
of the Society :—Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Brownlow Cumberland, of 
H. M. 96th Regiment; Rev. Thomas Reibey, of Entally; Rev. Alexander 
Cairnduff, of Hobart Town; Charles Arthur, Esq., P.M. of Longford; 
James Compton Gregson, Esq., Chairman of Quarter Sessions, Launceston ; 
George Turnbull, Esq., of Hobart Town; and Algernon Burdett Jones, 
Esq., Coroner for Buckingham. 
The Secretary read a letter from His Excellency Colonel Butterworth 
acknowledging his election as an Honorary Member, accompanied with a 
few numbers of the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, 
published at Singapore under the auspices of His Excellency, and promising 
to procure the series complete for the Society’s Library, &c. 
The Rev. T. J. Ewing presented to the Society’s Library a copy of the 
“ Toones Avium” of Gouin, a supplementary work executed in the splendid 
style characteristic of the author. 
