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The Secretary reported the acquisition hy the Society of a complete 

 articulated human Skeleton ; a human cranium, with the com- 

 ponent bones separated; the cranium of an aboriginal native of 

 Port Phillip ; and of certain Books, &c. 



Mr. Milligan read a Keport upon the Coal at Richmond and 

 Jerusalem, and the geological features of the district. 



Thanks of the Society voted for donations, and for the paper read 

 by the Secretary. 



14th Maech, 1849. — Monthly evening meeting; J. E. Bicheno, 

 Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Morton Allport, Esq., elected a Fellow of the Society. 



A volume of Statistics of Van Diemen's Land from 1824 to 1848, 

 presented by Mr. Hull. 



The Secretary placed on the table a collection of Corals from the 

 equinoctial isles of the Pacific ; also specimens of compact oxide of 

 Manganese, from a range of hills adjacent to the " Frenchman's Cap," 

 on the western side of Tasmania, — of the beautifully distinct and 

 well-established fossil Casuarina, occurring on the south-east coast of 

 Flinders' Island, nearly opposite to Vansittart Island, — and of Iron 

 Mica, delicately foliated and flexible, from the granitic district 

 between St. Valentine's Peak and the House-top Mountain on the 

 north coast. 



Mr. H. Hull read a paper on the Statistics of Van Diemen's Land 

 for 1848, wherein the history and progress of the colony is traced from 

 1803, and its condition at various intervening periods, compared with 

 its position at the close of 1848. 



Mr. Hull says — " The colony was established 46 years ago, viz., in 

 1803, by the arrival of a ship from Port Phillip with convicts and a 

 guard of soldiers. For 7 or 8 years it consisted solely of convicts 

 and soldiers — a mere convict station — then termed ' the Camp ;' now 

 the wide, well-built, regular, populous, and wealthy city of Hobart f 

 The first book kept to record official business in the Colony is now in 

 the Colonial Secretary's office : in it appear the Garrison Orders of the 

 Commandant — instructions to the first free settlers to keep in their 

 houses after dark — an account of the arrest of a free settler for 

 being in the streets at night— the parole and countersign — an 

 account of the extraordinary detention by force of Governor 

 Bligh, &c. No Church existed then, and Divine Worship was 

 performed, in compliance with a Garrison Order, in the verandah of 



