Proceedings. 191 



Prom the Reverend J. Foreday, of George Town, was received a packet of seeds 

 of the Alyxia biixifolia, the shrubby tree from which the scented wood of the 

 north coast of Tasmania is procxu'ed . 



From Mr. Calder was received a series of specimens of the beds passed through 

 by him in sinking a forty-feet hole in the richest part of the old Eureka line ; with 

 a fragment of quartz from the Great (1341b.) If ugget-hole at Canadian GuUey ; 

 and specimens of slate from Golden Point, Ballaarat. 



Mr. MiUigan placed before the meeting a paling thickly covered with barnacles, 

 Pentelasmis, sp. ? picked up on the sea coast, near the Douglas Piver. 



From Mr. Calder was also received a spirit preparation of the small Flying 

 Squirrel, Acrohates pygmceus, (Desm.) of Victoria. 



An elaborate paper on Tasmanian Statistics for the decennial period ending 

 31st December, 1853, was read by Mr. Barnard. 



Conversations followed, in which most of the members present took part. 



It was then moved by Mr. Hone, and seconded by Dr. Agnew, and carried, — 

 " That the thanks of the meeting are due to Mr. Barnard for his able and valuable 

 paper on Statistics, and to the other persons who have made communications and 

 presentations to the Society." 



The reverend chairman rose, and the meeting broke up by half-past nine o'clock. 



8th Novembee, 1854i. — Monthly evening meeting ; Joseph Hone, Esq., in 

 the chair. 



The following gentlemen were, after a baUot, declared to be didy elected Fellows 

 of the Society : Major Bradshaw, Dr. Atkinson, P.M.O., of Hobart Town; John 

 Sinclair, M.L.C, of Laimceston; and Anthony E. Truro, of Campbell Town, 

 Esquires. 



The presentations made to the Library were : — By the Rev. T. J. Ewing, 

 of New Town; — "Elements of Physio-philosophy, by Lawrenz Oken, M.D. ;" 

 also 2 vols, of the Sulletin de la Societe de QeograpMe, and "Westgarth's Com- 

 mercial and Statistical Report of the Colony of Port Phillip for 1844." 



First Report of the Adelaide Philosophical Society from the Secretary, from 

 whom a letter has been received seeking an interchange of conunimications, and 

 co-operation with the Royal Society in the pursuit and working out of their 

 respective objects and views. 



From Ferdinand MnUer, Esq., Government Botanist of Victoria, his Second 

 General Report on the Vegetation of the Colony, dated the 5th October last. 



From the Rev. W. B. Clarke, F.G.S., &c., Sydney, a Coimcil Paper relative to 

 Gold Discoveries in AListraUa; another on Sif R. I. Mm-chison's claim to the 

 same ; also Reports Nos. 9 and 10, by the Rev. W. B. Clarke, to the Colonial 

 Secretary, on the Geology of the Clarence District and adjoining regions, and of 

 the basin of the Condamine River, respectively. 



