Proceedings. 167 



" I have never had sight of these birds but twice before during my long 

 residence. Once Mr. Bagot, when A.D. C, brought me one which he had 

 shot at Richmond; and at another time an old pupil of mine shot one from a 

 flocic at Sandy Bay, which he described as actually darkening the air like a 

 thick cloud. In both instances they were at a great height. I gave these 

 birds to Commodore Berard when here; but I hope that some sporting 

 member of the Royal Society may have seen and shot for your Museum some 

 of the March flock. 



" I would also record an instance of a colony of Snakes which a friend of 

 mine killed in a small field in one day, near Brown's River. He despatched 

 no less than twelve. Nine of them had young ones in them, ranging ixoxn four 

 to six, so that he must have slaughtered upwards of sixty of these reptiles in 

 this small spot. — Believe me, yours very truly, 



" Thomas J. Ewing. 



"Joseph Milligan, Esq." 



Joseph Allpovt, Esq., mentioned that, about two months ago, there 

 was accidentally discovered in this neighbourhood, clustered under the 

 bark of a Banksia quadrivalvis (she-oak tree), a family oi sixteen bats. 



The room was heated with a magnificent fire of Coal from Mount 

 Nicholas, on the estate of F. L. Von Stieglitz. 



In the ante-room was a fire of Coal from Schouten Island. 



13th June, 1849. — Monthly evening meeting ; His Excellency 

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

 The following gentlemen elected Fellows : — 



Elisha Hathaway, Esq., U.S.C., Hobart Town 

 R. V. Legge, Esq., of Cullenswood 

 Andrew Crombie, Esq., of Hobart Town 

 Geo. A. Makeig, Esq., „ 



Nigel Gresley, Esq., „ 



I. W. H. Walch, Esq., 

 Robert Hepburn, Esq., St. Paul's Plains 

 Robert Carnes, Esq., M.D., New Town. 

 The Rev. J. B. Windsor and Joseph Henry Kay, Esq., Lt. R.N., 

 F.R.S. and Director of the Royal Observatory, Hobart Town, 

 admitted on Rule xvii. 



Captain Stanley presented for the Society's Botanical Gardens a 

 packet of Seeds, and for the Museum a box of choice Shells collected 

 by the naturalists of H.M.S. Rattlesnake on the islands and coasts of 

 Torres' Straits. 



Mr. H. Hull presented samples from Mount Wellington of the red 

 and white varieties of the timber of the Myrtle-tree of Tasmania 

 {Fagus Cunninghami) ; also a specimen of Pyritous conglomerate 



