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Strangers : — Lord Alfred Churcliill and Dr. Buck. 



After a ballot, the following gentlemen were declared to be dxily elected Fellows 

 of the Society : — 



Charles Toogood Downing, M. D., Fi-ancis Stanley Dobson, and F. Gr. Brock, 

 of Hobart Town, Esquires. 



The Secretary announced the receipt of the Journal (Part IV., vol. viii.) of the 

 Agricultural and Horticultiu'al Society of India from that Society. 



Also of a copy of the " Tasmanian Almanack" for 1825, from Mr. E. Gresley, 

 of H. M. Ordnance. 



Also of a copy of the Hortus Kewensis, in 5 volumes, from Mr, Westcott, of 

 Argyle-street. 



The Secretary added to the collection of Si/ngnatlddce in the Museum, specimens 

 of a Hippocanvpus from D'Entrecasteaux's Channel, which may probably prove to 

 be a distinct and undescribed species. 



Also a few specimens of a Tetraodon, from Oyster Cove, which is in aU proba- 

 biUty a new species ; the individuals vary in length from the point of the beak to 

 the tip of the taU fi'om li to If inches, and the body, when inflated, forms a 

 spheroid, is rough, with extremely fine prickles. The beak is sharp and projects 

 slightly, and the taU, which is very slender, measm*es nearly one-thhd of the entire 

 length of the fish. 



Mr. MOligan also placed before the meeting a specimen of a felspathic rock, con- 

 taining schorl and having a granitic structure, which forms the point of land 

 south from Oyster Cove, where it sustains and protrudes through a long series of 

 argillaceous sandstones, interstratified with which are thin beds of a finer deposit, 

 in some of which Serpulw, and in others forms resembling Trilohite, abound. 



Mi'. Milligan also submitted a series of Tasmanian Saliotidce, illustrative of a 

 paper on Austrahan Ear-shells, by Mr. Swainson, which was brought under the 

 notice of the meeting. 



His Excellency the President presented a copy of Maw and Company's Patterns 

 of Encaustic Tiles. His Excellency also presented a printed pamphlet on "Tbade 

 Museums, their Natm-e and Uses," by Edward SoUey, Esq., F.R.S. &c.. Secretary 

 of the Society of Ai-ts, London, together with printed cu'culars fi-om the same gen- 

 tleman intimating his appointment to the charge of forming a Musemn of raw and 

 manufactiu'ed animal products, and sohciting contributions, accompanied with 

 descriptions of source and locahties, mode of collection and preparation, &c. 



A printed circular letter from the director of the Eoyal Gardens at Kew 

 and of the Museum for vegetable substances, lately formed there, requesting similar 

 aid and information in respect of plants and their various products, was read. 



His Excellency then read the following note, dated 2nd February, 1854, from Sir 

 W. J. Hooker : — " Sir, — The Earl of Clarendon having with great difficulty pro- 

 cured from Morocco perfectly fi-esh seeds of the Ai-gan-tree (Argania sideroxylon) , 

 and placed a quantity of them at my disposal, I deem it my duty to distribute 

 them, and to send them especially to those colonies of our own where the climate 

 is suited to their growth and vigour. The husks are greedily eaten by cattle ; the 



