PROCEEDINGS. XXXV 



as a donation to the Society from the Government Statist of 

 Victoria. 



The Chairman then intimated to the members that the Council 

 wished the rules for the introduction of new members to the 

 Chair by their proposers and seconders to be carried out. That 

 the Council had determined to hold their meetings on the first 

 Wednesday of every month during the session, whether they had 

 a paper to read or not, and if they had no paper, to have a meet- 

 ing simply of a conversational character. 



The Chairman also called the attention of the members to the 

 by-laws for the admission of visitors, and the rule for the elec- 

 tion of honorary members. 



The Chairman further stated that the Council of the Society 

 had, in accordance with the above rule, nominated the following 

 gentlemen as honorary members, their election to take place at 

 the next meeting, viz. : — • 



Professor M'Coy, Baron von Miiller, and Robert L. J. Ellery, 



P.R.S., of Victoria. 

 Dr. Hector, F.R.S., and Dr. J. von Haast, F.R.S.. of New 



Zealand. 

 Lewis A. Bernays, F.L.S., V.P. of the Acclimatization Society 



of Queensland. 

 Dr. A gnew, of Tasmania. 

 Dr. Schomburgh, of South Australia, and 

 The Honorable F. Barlee, Colonial Secretary of Western 



Australia. 



The Chairman also stated, that the Secretaries had been 

 writing to scientific Societies in Europe and America, for an 

 exchange of their transactions and publications, and that they 

 had also put themselves in communication with the foreign Con- 

 suls, resident in Sydney, for the same purpose. 



A paper " On the Stanniferous Deposits of Tasmania," by Mr. 

 Wintle, was read by Professor Lives sidge, and illustrated by 

 specimens sent for that purpose per favour of the Rev. W. B. 

 Clarke. 



Mr. M'Ctjtcheon asked the Chairman how it was that among 

 the list of honorary members of the Society to be elected at their 

 next meeting, no gentleman had been proposed who was a 

 resident in New South Wales. 



The Chairman said, that the impression of the Council had 

 been that they should not elect, as honorary members, gentlemen 

 who were in their own Colony. Scientific men in this Colony 

 could join and identify themselves with the Society. They had 

 very great difficulty in selecting one or two eminent men in each 

 Colony, and not going further. 



