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Ordinary Meeting, January 12, 1864. 
J. C. Dyer, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The President, in the name of a number of members, 
presented to the Society a Portrait of one of its Vice-Presi- 
dents, J. P. Joule, LL.D., F.R.S., by G. Patten, A.R.A., of 
London, and intended to be hung up on the walls of the 
meeting room. 
On the motion of Professor Christie, seconded by Mr. 
Atkinson, it was resolved, 44 That the best thanks of the 
Society be given to Mr. Binney and the other donors of Dr. 
Joule’s valuable portrait.” 
Mr. John Roger son was elected an ordinary member of the 
Society. 
On the motion of Mr. Dyer, seconded by Mr. Sidebotham, 
it was resolved, 44 That the Society do hereby authorise the 
Council to procure a die for a medal, and to settle the 
design.” 
The following extract from a letter from 1'. T. Wilkinson, 
F.R.A.S, w r as read : — 44 On referring to the article 4 Dodo,’ 
in the Efiglish Cyclopaedia, I find that Mr. Sidebotham is 
mistaken in supposing that his photographs exhibit 4 the 
earliest figure of this now extinct bird.’ The frontispiece of 
De Bry's 4 Quinta Pars Indice Orientalist A.D. 1601, con- 
tains 4 a pair of these birds on the cornice on each side’ of the 
ornamental border. Clusius, in his 4 Exotica , ’ A.D. 1605, 
also gives a figure, which he says is copied from the Journal 
of a Dutch Voyager, who had seen the bird in a voyage to 
the Moluccas in A.D. 1598. Mr. Buxton’s 4 Histoire,’ 
appears to follow next in order; since the Journal of Admi- 
ral Peter Wilhelm Verhuffen, as quoted by the late Mr. 
Strickland, was printed at Frankfort, in A.D. 1613.” 
Proceedings— Lit. & Phil, Society— No. 10.— Session, 1863-64. 
