324 Proceedings. 
lit Aueust, 1852.—Monthly meeting: On the motion of Mr. D’Arch, 
Joseph Hone, Esq., senior Member of Council, took the chair. 
The following gentlemen were ballotted for and elected into the Society : 
Simeon Lord, Esq., of Boa Vista, Avoca; James G. Francis, Esq., and 
Mayo Smith, Esq., of Hobart Town. 
The Secretary reported receipt of the following entomological treatises 
from the author, W. W. Saunders, Esq , F.L.8., &c., of London, for presen- 
tation to the Society, ‘On some new species of Erycina, with coloured 
plates. Description of the Chrysomelide vf Australia, &c.,” with coloured 
plates, parts 1 and 2. ‘ On Australian Longicorn Beetles,” with coloured 
plates. ‘On Insects injurious to the Cotton Plant,” with figures. ‘On 
the Genus Pleomorpha.” Also parts 1 and 2 of ‘Insecta Saundersiana,” 
by Francis Walker, F.L.S. 
Abraham Hort, Esq., presented to the Library a Grammar of the New 
Zealand Language, ‘‘ By the Rev. R. Maunsell.” 
From Peter Fraser, Esq., were received skins of the following Game 
Birds of Europe, shot by himself :— Black Grouse, male and female, T'etrao 
tetric(Linn:); Red Grouse, male, Lagopus Scoticus (Lath:); Ptarmigan(adult, 
winter plumage) Lagopus mutus (Leach.); Golden Plover (winter plumage) 
Charadrius pluvialis (Linn:); Wood Pigeon, Columba paluwmbus (Linn :). 
Mr. Morton Allport presented a collection of eggs of Tasmanian Birds, 
and Mrs. Allport sent a fine specimen of the curious and delicate tubular 
shell of Aspergillum Javanicum, together with a marine product found on 
the beach at Kerguelen’s Land eight years ago; probably one of the 
varieties of Holothuria, from several of which the {‘ trepang” of commerce 
is prepared in warmer latitudes. 
From Dr. Crowther were received skins of the White Hawk of Tasmania, 
and of the large Tree Lizard of Port Phillip. 
The Secretary submitted specimens of gold in smooth flattened pieces 
embedded in a Breccia, composed of angular fragments of clay-schist and 
quartz, with an argillaceous cement, from the Victoria Diggings. 
Also specimens of a ferruginous amygdaloid, found embedded in the 
basalt forming the point which projects into the Derwent from the Govern- 
ment farm, at the extremity of the Domain. The rock there is a vesicular 
basalt, having its cells for the most part filled with spheroidal and almond-- 
like forms of iron ore. The cliffs opposed to the sea have a very distinct 
columnar character and vertical position, resting upon amorphous basalt, 
which stretches in mass under the waters of the Estuary. 
Receipt at the Society's Gardens of a case of New Zealand plants, 
presented by H.S. Chapman, Esq., Colonial Secretary, reported. 
A series of carefully-executed coloured drawings of Tasmanian Orchids, 
with the organs of fructification, dissected and delineated with great nicety, 
