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the service you have rendered to the Society, and to the cause of 
science generally. 
In parting with your Excellency, we are reminded that to your 
‘successful exertions at an early period after your arrival in the 
Colony, we are indebted for the reorganisation of the Society on a 
satisfactory basis. We feel also that our best thanks are due to 
you for your earnest and constant endeavours to promote its 
interests, and more particularly for the valuable papers treating 
of the special capabilities and requirements of the Colony, 
which you have contributed from time to time at our monthly 
meetings. 
We trust that your Excellency’s departure to assume the high 
and responsible office to which Her Gracious Majesty has been 
pleased to appoint you, will not lessen the interest you have always 
taken in our labours, nor altogether deprive us of your co-opera- 
tion and assistance. 
In taking leave, we desire to convey to you, as also to Lady 
Denison and the members of your family, our earnest wish that 
health and happiness may support and encourage you in the new 
sphere of duties to which you have been called. 
We subscribe ourselves, with unfeigned regard, your Excel- 
lency’s sincere friends. 
[Signed by all the members present. | 
The President then read two communications he had 
received from Mr. Thomas Hale of Bellambi, giving par- 
ticulars of the horse tramway he had constructed from the 
coal-mine to the harbour. 
These communications were printed in the ‘*Herald,”’ 
and will be found in the Society’s Cuttings Book, witha 
list of exhibitors and their exhibits at this meeting. 
Forty-first Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
15th May, 1861. Alfred Roberts Hsq. in the Chair. 
