XXXV111. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



His "Geographical Memoirs" contain papers read before 

 the Philosophical Society of Australasia. He was President 

 of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales in 1822. 



•Major Frederick Goulburn (1788-1837) was a son of 

 Munbee Goulburn of Portland Place, London, and was 

 born in 1788. At the age of seventeen he was appointed 

 a cornet in the 23rd Dragoons, and later was present at 

 the battle of Waterloo. He was appointed Colonial 

 Secretary, and arrived in Port Jackson on the ship "Hebe," 

 on the 31st December, 1820. x His elder brother was the 

 Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, Under Secretary for the 

 Colonies, after whom Surveyor James Meehan named 

 Goulburn Plains in 1818. 



From the "Sydney Gazette" of December 15, 1821, we 

 learn that Frederick Goulburn was elected President of the 

 Benevolent Society. He kept a meteorological diary from 

 May 1, 1821, to April 30, 1822, a copy of which was published 

 in Barron Field's book. He was Vice-Patron of the Agri- 

 cultural Society of New South Wales formed July 5, 1822. 

 He was President of the Sydney Institution, a society formed 

 for the purpose of procuring periodical publications from 

 Great Britain. (Sydney Gaz. June 28, 1822). 



Patrick Hill, j.p., Surgeon, R.N. (1794-1852). Dr. Hill 

 was the Surgeon and Superintendent of the ship "Atlas" 

 which arrived at Sydney on July 22, 1816, with 187 prisoners 

 only one having died, He also came by the Earl St. Vincent 

 which arrived at Sydney in 1820. 2 By February, 1821, he 

 was appointed Assistant Surgeon at Liverpool by Governor 

 Macquarie. He accompanied Commissioner John Thomas 

 Bigge and Surveyor General John Oxley from Bathurst 



1 Hist. Rec. of Australia, Seiies I, Vol. x, 295. 



2 Hist. Rec. of Australia, Series I, Vol. x, 365. 



