xxxii Minutes of Meetings. 



2. No. 2, Vol. XVII., of the Transactions of the Eoyal Astrono- 

 mical Society. 



3. Three volumes presented by the Smythsonian Society of 

 America, through Mr. Lord, Collins Street ; two volumes on Patents 

 bearing on Mechanics and one on Patents relating to Agriculture. 



Mr. Hawlinson gave notice of motion for the next meeting,to the 

 following effect, — 



" That a Committee, consisting of the President, Professor McCoy 

 and Edward Wilson, Esq., be appointed to examine and report as to 

 the necessity (if any such exists,) of aiding Mr. Edward Wilson in 

 bringing to a successful issue his experiments on the introduction of 

 the Murray River Cod fish into the Yarra Yarra and its tributaries." 



The Institute then separated. 



6th May, 1857. 



Mohthly Meeting. 



The Hon. Captain Clarke, RE., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous monthly meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



The new members elected at the preceding meeting were intro- 

 duced by the President. 



The Honorary Secretary read a communication from His Excellency 

 the Governor, in acknowledgment of the letter of condolence for- 

 warded to His Excellency by the Council on the occasion of the 

 much lamented death of Lady Barkly. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for, and admitted ordinary 

 members of the Institute, — 



Martin Sholl, Esq., Secretary G. and M. Railway. 



Charles Edward Strutt, Esq., Melbourne. 



John Lanktree, Esq., Sec. S. and W. Commission, Melbourne. 



Wm. Farrage, Esq., Surgeon, Collingwood. 



D. T. Hope, Esq., Contractor, Melbourne. 



Wm. Austin Zeal, Esq., C.E., Melbourne. 



Samuel V. Kemp, Esq., C.E., St. Kilda. 



Robert Adams, Esq., C.E., Prahran. 



Albert Purchas, Esq., Architect, Melbourne. 



Benjamin F. Kane, Esq., Secretary N.B. of Education, Melbourne. 



Patrick Hayes, Esq., Operative Chemist, Sandridge. 



Henry Stevenson, Esq., North Melbourne. 



John Musson, Esq., Contractor, St. Kilda. 



The Honorary Secretary intimated that the " Transactions" of the 

 Institute, for 1856, were printed, and that he only waited for final 

 instructions from the Council to publish the same, in order that 

 copies might be distributed to the members. 



A paper was read by Frederick Acheson, Esq., in the absence of 



