appp:ndix. Ixxxiii. 



specimens, brought from Port Macquarie by Mr. Oxley, 

 and to request of Assistant Surgeon Fenton, now detached 

 there, specimens of the timber and natural history of that 

 port, and to make other enquiries in physical science of 

 that gentleman. 



Mr. Wollstonecraft informed the Society that Mr. Kent 

 of the Colonial Marine, was about to sail for the Sandwich 

 Islands, and had offered to further the enquiries of the 

 Society, 



Resolved, that Capt. Irvine and Mr. Wollstonecraft do 

 form a Committee, for the purpose of preparing written 

 Instructions and Queries for Mr. Kent. 



Resolved, That the first sentence of the Society's Letter 

 to the various Philosophical Institutions of the Globe, be 

 altered as follows : vizt. 



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

 the various branches of physical science of this vast continent, 

 and its adjacent regions — the history and character of man, 

 together with the diversities of his language. These interesting 

 and important pursuits," &c. 



17th October, 1821. 

 At Mr. Field's, 

 Present 

 Mr, Bowman, 

 Mr. Field, 

 Mr. Oxley. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Major Goulburn was excused from attending, by reason 

 of public business. 



Mr. Oxley was fined for non-attendance at a quarter 

 past seven o'clock. 



