172 Proceedings. 



Fragments of a layer of inner bark of Melaleuca squaiTosa, or 

 swamp tea-tree, resembling a leaf of papyrus, and a Oh-rera (?), 

 preserved in spirits, received from P. S. Tomlins, Esq., A. P.M., 

 South Port, 



A specimen of tlie Menura sxqyerha, stuflfed and set up, presented 

 by Mr. Alfred Douglas. 



Specimens of Galena from the estate of Abraham Walker, Esq., of 

 Norfolk Plains, placed on the table by the Secretary. The ore is 

 found in nodules in a highly siliceous limestone, underlying a slaty 

 clay-rock and clayey breccia, beneath a hill of greenstone on the 

 margin of the " Western Lagoons." 



A paper prepared by the late Captain Stanley, R.E., upon the 

 history, habits, and mode of breeding of the Salmon, and upon the 

 means by which this valuable fish may be introduced into the 

 Tasmanian rivers, read by Mr. H. Hull. Sir W. Deuison said he 

 had addressed Earl Grey, requesting tliat facilities might be afforded 

 on board vessels coming to the colony under contract to Government. 



His Excellency the President read a paper, condensed from a 

 Eeport by him to the Admiralty, upon various methods in use at the 

 shipping ports of Great Britain for expediting the loading of vessels 

 with coal, &c. from the ends of jetties and wharves, &c. 



10th OcTOBEB, 1849. — Monthly meeting ; Joseph Hone, Esq., in 

 the chair. 



Major Last, of the 99th Regiment, admitted on Rule xviii. 



The Secretary reported the purchase of Gould's Birds of Australia 

 by the Society, and that the first number of the Mammals had beeu 

 obtained. 



A copy of the Statistical Tables of Tasmania for 1848, published 

 by authority, received. 



A pamphlet on Harbours of Refuge, by the Right Hon. Earl of 

 Lovelace, and emanating from the Institution of Civil Engineers, 

 presented by Sir William Denison. 



Seven volumes of Books presented from the library of the late 

 Captain Stanley. 



Dried specimens of Pines of Tasmania presented from R. C. 

 Gunn, Esq. 



Specimens of Casarca tadorno'ides, or chesnut sheldrake, and of 

 Lobivanellus lobatus, the wattled peewit or spur-winged plover of 

 Tasmania, shot near Oatlands, stated by Gould to be found exclusively 



