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Trusting that some means may speedily be found of turning this store of 

 fuel to good account, to the advantage of both the natives and our fellow- 

 colonists, 



I remain, your very obedient servant, 



Arthur G. Purchas. 

 22nd February, 1850. 



8th Mat.— Monthly evening meeting, numerously attended ; His ■ 

 Excellency Sir William Denison, President of the Society, occupied 

 the chair. 



Alfred Denison, Esq., of Sydney, was ballotted for and duly 

 elected a. Fellow of the Society. W. R. Pugh, Esq., M.D,, of 

 Lauuceston, has been admitted on Eule xvii. The Secretary- 

 presented a cojiy of Eoss's Hobart Town Almanack for 1832 from 

 the Messrs. Best. 



Mr. Phineas Moss presented three boois,namely, Dr. Drummond's 

 " Letters to a Young Naturalist," " Synopsis of the Contents of the 

 British Museum," and " A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Abori- 

 ginal Language of South Australia." 



Mr. Milligan presented seven quarterly parts of the "Transactions. 

 of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland." 



The receipt at the Society's Gardens of two cases from England 

 containing choice Camellias and other plants, generally in good 

 condition, was reported-, also the receipt of a case from Joseph 

 Bonney, Esq., of Perth, containing eighty plants, chiefly Australian ; 

 it was also stated that Mr. Newman had forwarded to the Botanic 

 Garden at Sydney, per H.M. S. Meander, a large case of plants and 

 scions, together with two boxes of choice strawberries. 



Mr. A. Makeig, of the Treasury, placed on the table a large and 

 elaborately-finished model of Chapman's Patent Drop Machine, by 

 which coal is lowered in the trucks to a ship lying ia deep water, and 

 poured into the hold in a way to avoid breakage, at the rate of 2 to 

 3 tons per minute. The examination of the various details of this 

 beautifully executed and valuable model, and the exhibition of its 

 mode of operation, created general interest and attention. 



The Secretary placed on the table a box of geological specimens 

 collected by Mr. James Scott, Surveyor, Launceston, on the northern 

 side of the island, transmitted by him to the Surveyor-General, and 

 by order of Sir William Denison transferred to the Society's Museum. 

 His Excellency the President took the opportunity of stating that 



