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APPENDIX. 



Major Goulburn was fined for non-attendance at a quarter 

 past 7 o'clock. 



26th September, 1821. 

 At Mr. Wollstonecraft's 

 Present 

 Mr. Bowman 

 Dr. Douglass 

 Mr. Field 

 Major Goulburn 

 Mr. Hill 

 Mr. Oxley 

 Mr. Wollstonecraft. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, 



Mr. Bowman was excused from non-attendance at the 

 last Meeting, by reason of public business. 



The Secretary laid before the Society the following 

 draught of a circular letter to the several scientific Socie- 

 ties of the different quarters of the globe. 



" Sir, Sydney, New South Wales, 1821 



" I am desired by the Philosophical Society of Australasia, 

 to acquaint you with its institution in the month of June last. 



" This Society has been formed with a view of inquiring into 

 the various branches of Natural History of this vast continent 

 and its adjacent regions; and the mineralogical and geological 

 state of these countries form primary objects of the Society. These 

 interesting and important pursuits demand much time and industry 

 before they can be given with due consideration and advantage to 

 the public; and, in the meantime, the Society are anxious to 

 express their readiness to receive any suggestions or enquiries that 

 your learned body may wish to have acted upon or examined into. 

 The Society have opened a Museum at Sydney, in which they 

 intend to deposit specimens of the results of their researches into 

 the different Kingdoms of Nature; and of these I am desired to 



