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9th January, 1850. — Monthly evening meeting ; Joseph Hone, 

 Esq., in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were ballotted for and elected Fellows : — 



Henry Butler, of Hobart Town ; Frank Butler, of Hobart Town ; 

 Phineas Moss, of Hobart Town, Esquires. 



The Secretary reported that His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison, 

 President of the Society, had forwarded to the Museum a valuable 

 collection of shells from the eastern shores of Central and South 

 America, specimens of metallic minerals from Chile, and of native 

 sulphur from New Zealand. 



Major Cotton, Deputy Surveyor-General, sent specimens of 

 transition slate and quartz from the Huon Eiver, nearly opposite 

 Lake Pedder ; of greenstone from Mount Picton ; and of clayslate 

 and micaceous schist from the Frenchman's Cap mountain ; also, the 

 palm-like head of a tree of Ricliea Pandanifolia from a ravine in that 

 neighbourhood, the stem of which measured 40 feet in length. 



J. E. Bicheno, Esq., sent a good specimen of Fungia Patellaris ; 

 a specimen of native sulphate of magnesia of Tasmania ; also, a large 

 concretionary mass said to have been taken from the stomach of a 

 sheep. It was remarked that concretions of this description have usually 

 a dirty yellowish green colour, and the figure of a sphere or ball 

 variously flattened, with a diameter of one to two inches only ; that 

 they are composed of thin layers of finely subdivided and closely 

 compacted vegetable fibre ; that they have been found to afi"ect sheep 

 in almost every district of the Island, and generally without sensible 

 detriment to health or condition ; and that they have been known 

 after a season to disappear from flocks all but universally affected by 



