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A communication from the Colonial Secretary, covering copy of a 
Despatch from Sir J. Pakington to the Lieutenant-Governor, with printed 
papers respecting the Society of Arts, London, and requesting the co- 
operation of the Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land, was read. After 
some observations by members, it was referred to the Council of the 
Society, with a request that a Report be prepared and brought up at a 
subsequent meeting. 
The thanks of the Society having been voted for the various donations 
and written communications, the chairman rose, and the members generally 
left by half-past nine. 
13TH OcroserR, 1852.— Monthly meeting; the chair was occupied by the 
senior member of the Council, Joseph Hone, Esq. 
Mr. Coote, of Liverpool-street, was elected a member. 
The following presentations were made to the Library of the Society :— 
By order of Lieutenant-Governor Sir W. Denison, books forwarded by the 
Government of India, 1 vol. folio, plates, ‘‘ Palms of British India;” 1 vol. 
4to. “ Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum;” 1 vol. 8vo. large, ‘ Notule ad 
Plantas Asiaticas,” from the Posthumous Papers of William Griffiths, F.L.S., 
bequeathed to the Hon. East India Company, at whose expense they have 
been printed. Also the following books and documents from Aaron H. 
Palmer, Esq., of the eity of Washington, U.S., accompanied by a letter 
read to the meeting. A Report to Congress on the Commerce and Navi- 
gation of the United States for 1851, by the Secretary of the Treasury. A 
Report of the Commissioners of Patents to the House of Representatives 
for 1849; also the ‘‘ Patent Laws,” and ‘“ Information to Persons having 
Business to transact at the Patent Office of the United States.” A Report 
of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs, transmitted with the Message of 
the President of the first session of Congress, 1851. Abstract of the 
Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Memorial by Alfred Guthrie, 
Practical Engineer, to the Senate and House of Representatives, on the 
Causes of Explosion of Steam Boilers; ordered to be printed 6th Feb., 1852. 
Report by the Secretary of the Navy to the President of the United States, 
1851. Report on Liberia, presented to the Senate of the United States by 
Daniel Webster, 14th Sept., 1850. Sketches of Liberia, by J. W. Lugen- 
beel. Annual Report (35th) of the American Colonization Society. The 
Coast Survey of the United States, 1851. Also from Mr. Rodd, of 
Hobart Town, a Treatise on the Cultivation and Preparation of Flax; and 
from Mr. J. G. Winter, a Pamphlet “ On the Importance of Bone Dusit as 
