APPENDIX. 1XXV. 



Mr. Field was fined for non-attendance at a quarter past 

 7 o'clock. 



Resolved, That Mr. Bowman be added to the Museum 

 Committee. 



Captain Irvine's letter to Mr. Field, and Postscript, 

 having been circulated round the Society, 



Resolved, That an English Inscription to record the first 

 landing of Capt. Cook, and Sir Joseph Banks on the eastern 

 coast of New Holland, would be preferable; and that each 

 Member be invited to produce such an Inscription at the 

 next Meeting, for the judgment of the Society. 



15th August, 1821. 

 At Mr. Oxley's. 



Present, 

 Mr. Bowman, 

 Dr. Douglass, 

 Mr. Field, 

 Major Goulburn, 

 Capt. Irvine, 

 Mr. Oxley. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.. 



Mr. Hill was ballot ted a Member of the Society, and 

 introduced at this Meeting. 



The following Inscription to record the first landing of 

 Capt. Cook and Sir Joseph Banks, on the east coast of New 

 Holland, was produced by Major Goulburn, and adopted by 

 the Society. 



" Under the Auspices of British Science, 

 "These shores were discovered in the year of our Lord 



" by MDOCLXX, 



"James Cook and Joseph Banks, 

 "The Columbus and Maecenas of the Georgian Age. 



