Ixxii. APPENDIX. 



Mr. Field, 

 Major Goulburn, 

 Capt. Irvine, 

 Mr. Oxley. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were redd and confirmed. 



The Museum Committee report that they have contracted 

 with a tradesman for the fitting up of the room in the 

 Colonial Secretary's Office for the sum of £9. 



Confirmed. 



Mr. Wollstonecraft sent an excuse for non-attendance, 

 viz*; that he was engaged to dine at Government House. 



Resolved, That such excuse is not sufficient. 



Mr. Field laid before the Society a Latin Inscription by a 

 friend, commemorating the landing of Capt. Cook and Sir 

 Joseph Banks, K.B. on this coast, for the purpose of being 

 engraved on brass and erected on the spot, by this Society. 



Ordered to be taken into consideration at the next 

 Meeting. 



Mr. Bowman proposes, and Mr. Oxley seconds, as a 

 Member of this Society, Mr. Patrick Hill, Surgeon of the 

 Royal Navy. 



Resolved XV. That every experiment, related in any 

 paper laid before the Society, shall (if possible) be performed 

 and verified at the reading of the paper, or if not possible 

 at the time, that the Society shall take the best means to 

 determine the truth and value of such experiment, and 

 that the means and result of such verification be deposited 

 in the^Society's Museum. 



25th July, 1821. 

 At Capt. Irvine's (out of turn by consent) 

 Present, 

 Mr. Bowman 

 Dr. Douglass 



