Ixxvi. APPKND1X. 



""This Spot then saw them land, ardent in the pursuit of 



Knowledge ; 



"Now 



"To their Memory this Tablet is inscribed, 



"In the first Year 



"of 



"The Philosophical Society of Australasia. 



President. 

 "A.D. MDCOOXXI." 



Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be given to 

 Major Goulburn, as the only producer of such an Inscription. 



Resolved, That Mr. Field and Mr. Oxley form a Com- 

 mittee to procure the Inscription to be engraven on brass, 

 with a view to its erection by the Society, against a rock, 

 on the south shore of Botany Bay. 



22nd August, 1821. 

 At Mr. Wollstonecraft's. 

 Present, 

 Mr. Bowman, 

 Dr. Douglass, 

 Mr. Field, 

 Major Goulburn, 

 Capt. Irvine, 

 Mr. Oxley, 

 Mr. Wollstonecraft. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, 

 with the exception of the Inscription. 



Resolved, That the language of that Ipscription be taken 

 into further consideration at the next Meeting. 



Dr. Douglass and Major Goulburn were fined for non- 

 attendance at a quarter past 7 o'clock. 



Resolved, That the ballot for Mr. Marsden as a Member 

 of this Society be postponed, at the request of his Proposer. 



