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a Manure.” From Mr..M. Allport, “ Present (1829) State of Van 
Diemen’s Land: by H. Widowson ;” and from Dr. Moore, of New Norfolk, 
‘‘ the Parliamentary Gazetteer of Tees and Wales,” in 13 ces of 
which the first three have been received. 
A communication from the Honorary Secretary of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal read; acknowledging receipt of the Society’s Journal, expressing 
a desire to exchange specimens in natural history, the products of India 
and Tasmania, and intimating that instructions had been given to the 
Curator at once to prepare a collection of such specimens as are likely to 
prove interesting to the Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land. 
Acknowledgments from the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Sydney, and 
from the Secretary to the Australian Subscription Library, of the last 
number of this Society’s Journal; together with a note from G. E. Turner, 
Honorary Secretary to the Australian Museum Committee, laid before the 
meeting. 
A note read from John Lyne, Esq., on the construction of low wooden 
bridges over rapid streams which rise to a great height, recommending 
a platform inclined to the stream at a certain angle, which would bear 
submersion without damage, and allow drift-wood, &c., to pass over. 
A note read from H. Maclaine, Esq., of Spring Bay, accompanying a 
sample of chalybeate water from “a natural fountain” in that neighbour- 
hood, submitted for examination. 
The Secretary read a note from J. D. Loch, Esq., presenting to the 
Museum a neat model, with paddles, &c., complete, of the ‘“ Masoolah 
boat,” celebrated for the ease and safety with which it conveys goods and 
passengers through the heavy surf at Madras. 
The Secretary placed before the meeting two fresh specimens of Native 
Bread, taken by himself out of the ground, where they were contiguous, 
but unattached, to the roots of a young Hucalyptus, in a soil consisting 
chiefly of white clay with sand, upon a low hill near the sea, in the vicinity 
of Oyster Cove. 
Mr. S. Moses presented a small collection of sea-shells from Adelaide 
and Swan River, comprising specimens of Cyprea, Nertia, Natica, Turbo, 
and Conus. 
Mr. Dobson, of the High School, exhibited drawings of Delphinapterus 
Peronit, taken in lat. 41° 8. long. 9° E., which differs materially, he says, 
from that which appears in the Zoology of the Hrebus and Terror; also a 
sketch of a nondescript ray-like form of fish observed by Captain Mackellar, 
of the Pacifico, on the 5th July, 1852, in lat. 8° 34’ N. and long. 136° 46’ W., 
apparently ‘‘ ten feet long, and in shape like a bat,” said to have ‘‘ swam 
round and about the vessel for several hours during a dead calm,” to have 
a blue colour below, and to have been accompanied by several pilot-fishes. 
