Proceedings, 



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Meteorological Table for the months of April and May, informing the 

 Meeting that such Meteorological Table will be laid before the 

 Society at each monthly meeting. 



Clement Hodgkinson, Esq., requested the secretary to read his 

 observations *' On the statements of Dr. D. E. Wilkie and Charles 

 Griffith. Esq., concerning himself, with reference to the Yan Yean 

 Water Scheme, pointing out the several errors into which they had 

 fallen." 



July lOtTi, 1855. 

 Monthly Meeting. Dr. J. Maund in the chair. 



This was the first general meeting of the members of the Philo- 

 sophical Society and the Victorian Institute, since the preliminary 

 arrangements, to effect tlie amalgamation of both societies, under 

 the name of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, were com- 

 pleted. The papers read at this meeting having been written by 

 members of the Philosophical Society, with the view of being laid 

 before the meeting of the Philosophical Society; in order to com- 

 plete the Transactions for the past year, these papers as well as the 

 proceedings of the meeting are given in this volume. 



Dr. Eades, in proposing that Dr. Maund should take the chair, 

 remarked that as this was the first meeting of the united societies, 

 and as the newly-formed society, under the title of the Philoso- 

 phical Institute, met in the room where the late Philosophical So- 

 ciety held their meetings, he felt it, as a matter of delicacy and 

 courtesy, that, in the absence of the President, one of the members 

 of the late Victorian Institute should take the chair. Accordingly 

 he felt happy in proposing Dr. Maund. 



The Chairman, in opening the meeting, remarked that it was the 

 first meeting of the body, composed of the members of the late 

 Philosophical Society and of the Victorian Institute. He trusted 

 that the members of the Philosophical Institute would co- 

 operate for the attainment of the objects contemplated by the so- 

 ciety. 



The Honorary Secretary, announced the admission of new 

 members since the last meeting of the Philosophical Society, 

 viz. :— A. B. Johnson, Esq., Robert Sloane, Esq., resident members: 

 and Robert Scott, Esq., corresponding member of the society. 



A report On the physical character of the county of Heytesbury, 

 to the Surveyor-General, Captain Clarke, R.E., by the Resident 

 Surveyor, Robert Scott, Esq., was read by Fred. Acheson, Esq., C.E. 



This paper embodied the observations of the author during a 

 professional tour through the country drained by Gellibrand s 



