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this application, Mr. Bazley, ^I.P., has offered to place the Committee 

 of the Australian Association in communication with several leading 

 manufacturers, who will gratuitou.sly test the value of the several 

 consignments. 



" I have, <tc., 



(Signed) " G. C. Le>vis." 



His Excellency stated that he had already received a very valuable 

 report from Dr. Mueller, the Government Botanist, on the subject of 

 the fibrous productions of the Colony. He had no doubt Dr. Mueller 

 would be happy to lay a copy before the Society. 



Dr. Macadam then gave notice that at the next meeting he would 

 move " That a Committee be appointed to carry out the object of 

 the communication, and to report on the grasses of the Colony." 



The Hon. Secretary then laid the following contributions on the 

 table : — Mining Surveyors' Reports, No. 8, December, 1859, and No. 

 16, August, 1860, presented by the Board of Science ; Vol. XVI., 

 part II., No. .52, for May, of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society, presented by the Society ; a segment of ball iron ore, pre- 

 sented by W. Lockhart Morton, Esq. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members of 

 the Society ; — 



J. J. Blanche, Esq., schoolmaster, Tarraville. 

 Kev. Evan Macdonald, Kyueton. 

 Dr. M'Millan, Kyneton. 



W. Lockhart Morton, Esq., moved " That a Committee be ap- 

 pointed to inquire into and report upon the best means for procuring 

 the introduction of new animals, and the importation of new agricul- 

 tural seeds into the Colony." 



Dr. Eades seconded the motion, which was carried, as was also the 

 following contingent motion — " That the following gentlemen be ap- 

 pointed members of the said Committee, ^vith power to add to their 

 number : — 



John Macadam, Esq., M.D, 

 Dr. Ferdinand Mueller. 

 Rev. John I. Bleasdale. 

 Frederick Achcson, Esq. 

 John Walter Osborne, Esq., and 

 The Mover." 



P. H. McGillivray, Esq., read a description of a new Australian 

 species of Plumatella, and at the conclusion of the meeting exhibited 

 the animal alive under the microscope. 



Dr. Macadam, for Charles Wilhelmi, Esq., Assistant Government 

 Botanist, read a paper by that gentleman on the " Manners and 

 Customs of the Australian Natives, in particular those residing in 

 the Port Lincoln District," 



