xiv Proceedings, ^c. 



Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



August 6th, 1860. 



Professor Neumayer (Vice-President) in the Chair. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 



Letters were read from Dr. Mueller, the President, and Mr. 

 EUery (Government Astronomer), excusing their absence on account 

 of illness. 



The following contributions were laid on the table : — No. XIV. of 

 the "Mining Surveyors' Reports for June" — by Henri J. Hart, Esq. 

 " Results of the Maguetical, Nautical, and Meteorological Observa- 

 tions made and collected at the Flagstaff Observatory, Melbourne " 

 —by Professor Neumayer. " Cabinet d' Antiquities Americaines a 

 Copenhague." "The Northmen in Iceland" — by the Royal So- 

 ciety of Northern Antiquaries, through J. B. Were, Esq., Danish 

 Consul. Leg-bones of the Moa Bird, found in New Zealand— by 

 Captain Thomas Robertson. Specimens of Iron inanufactured from 

 Scrap Iron, at the Rolling Mills, Spencer-street, Melbourne — by 

 Thomas Loader, Esq. No. XIII. of the " Fragmenta Phytographise 

 Australiaa" — by Dr. Mueller. 



Papers that were to have been read by the following gentlemen : 

 — R. L. J. Ellery, Esq., F.R.A.S. (Governmeut Astronomer), Arthur 

 Dobree, Esq., J. Pittman, Esq., and W. Lockhart Morton, Esq.,. 

 were postponed to the ensuing meeting. 



The Chairman suggested that a communication from the Hon. 

 Secretary should be sent to the widow of the late Hon. Major Hodgson, 

 expressive of the sympathy of the Society with her in her bereave- 

 ment. A Lithographed Portrait of the deceased gentleman was pre- 

 sented by the Secretary, Dr. Macadam. 



Mr. J. G. Knight moved his resolutions on the subject of holding 

 an Australian Exhibition in the ensuing year, and was supported by 

 the Rev. J. I. Bleasdale, Dr. Macadam, and W. Lockhart Morton, 

 Esq. The gentlemen here named, together with Hon. J. H. Brooke, 

 M.L.A., Mr. E. G. Fitzgibbon, and Mr. A. K. Smith, were appointed 

 a deputation to wait upon the Chief Secretary, with a view to 

 ascertain what support the Government are willing to accord to their 

 undertaking. 



An exquisite plaster model of a seal for the Society, designed by 

 Dr. Becker, and executed by Mr. Charles Sumner, of Collins-street, 

 was laid on the table, being a present from the Sculptor. It is 

 about four inches in diameter, is framed, and glazed, and represents 

 Art and Science advancing to the invitation of Australia (in the 

 person of a nearly nude aboriginal), followed by Philosophy, and 

 distributing light and civilisation through the known, and, it is to be 

 hoped, unknoAvn parts of this Continent. 



The samples of Iron from the Spencer-street Rolling Mills were of 



