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The following gentlemen were ballotted for and elected Fellows :— 

 The Eight Kev. Bishop Willson 

 The Venerable Archdeacon Marriott 

 Thomas Boot, of Hobart Town 

 J. L. Fitzgerald, „ 



William Seccombe, „ 

 A. M. Milligan, of Launceston 

 Edwin Tooth, of Bagdad — Esquires. 

 A copy of the Tasmanian Journal, complete to this date, presented 

 by Eonald C. Gunn, Esq. 



Three volumes. Life of Wm. Allen, presented by G.W.Walker, Esq. 

 Four crania of Aborigines of New Zealand, presented by Captaia 

 Stanley. 



Joseph Allport, Esq., drew attention to a sample of coal upon the 

 table from the estate of Mr. Vicary, at Spring Bay ; it crops out 

 there in a thin seam on the margin of a rill of water close to the sea. 

 The coal is splendent, of a greyish-black colour, and very friable. 



Mr. Milligan concluded his report on the Coal of the upper valley 

 of the South Esk — of the Break-o'-day — the St. Paul's, the Apsley, 

 and the Douglas Elvers, — with reference more especially to the seams 

 at Fingal, Mount Nicholas, and the East Coast. Upon the table 

 were plans and sections of the country, and specimens of coal and 

 the various rocks associated with it from these localities ; also of 

 granite and transition clay-slates from the mouth of the Scamander 

 Elver; of syenitic granite, from St. Mary's Pass; and of granite, 

 clay-slates, and greenstone, along the coast from Falmouth to the 

 emhouchure of the Douglas Eiver. 



Thanks of the Society voted to Mr. Milligan for his papers on the 

 coal fields of the colony, and to the various persons who made 

 donations. 



10th January, 1849. — Monthly evening meeting; His Excellency 

 Sir W. T. Denison, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 



The Eev. T. J. Ewing, of New Town, admitted on Eule xvii. 



Francis Loughnan, Esq., ballotted for and elected into the 

 Society. 



Buffon's Natural History, in 15 vols., presented by Mr. Barnard. 



The cranium of a Porpoise of the neighbouring seas by Mr. Calder. 



A box of specimens of rocks and minerals, collected at Macquarie 

 Harbour, by Mr. Milligan in 1846, presented by Sir Wm. Denison. 



