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Surgeon Dr. Huish, of this city. The chief difference between this 

 model and the gun harpoons from England is, that the line in this 

 is attached to a nut, which, travelling along the harpoon itself, half 

 enters the muzzle of the gun, into which it nicely fits. 



A letter from Mr. Young, of Invershin, Inverness shire, addressed 

 to James Burnett, Esq., of this city, and recently received, on the 

 introduction of salmon, was read. Mr. Young has had communica- 

 tions with Mr. B. Hawes on the subject, and he now recommends, as 

 ensuring all but absolute success, that full-grown salmon should be 

 sent out in a vessel fitted up for the express purpose, which he terms 

 a welled smack. The cost, estimated at about £700 or £800, ofi'ers 

 for the present an obstacle scarcely to be overcome ; but it is expected 

 that the more practicable and cheaper mode of bringing out spawn 

 or smolt in tanks will be tried, and that the pleasures and profits 

 of salmon fishing may in due course be added to the sports and 

 pastimes as well as industrial resources of the colony. 



Discussions followed, and protracted the sitting to ten o'clock, when, 

 after voting the thanks of the Society for the various donations, the 

 members separated. 



11th September — Monthly evening meeting; Joseph Hone, 

 Esq., senior member of council present, in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were ballotted for and duly elected into 

 the Society : — Hon. R. G. Talbot, of Malahide ; George King, Esq., 

 E.N., Port Ofiicer; John Mackinnon, Esq., of Selma ; and Richard 

 Cleburne, Esq., Hobart Town. 



The Secretary reported the following donations to the Society's 

 Library : — From John Abbott, Esq., a copy of Andrew Bent's Van 

 Diemen's Land Almanack for 1824, said to be the first book printed 

 and published in the colony ; from Ronald C. Gunn, Esq., a copy of 

 Sir W. J. Hooker's " Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens 

 at Kew ;" from Alfred Douglass, Esq., of Port Phillip, a treatise 

 on " Mesmerism and Clairvoyance," recently published in Melbourne. 



The presentations to the Museum were : — 



A fine specimen of fossil wood {Banksia P) known as the Ross 

 fossil, from J. E. Bicheno, Esq. 



A valuable collection of eggs of Tasmanian birds, from Mr. 

 Morton Allport. 



A specimen of fibrous schorl, locality not named, from Mr= 

 Barnard. 



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