Minutes of the Tasmanian Society . 
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Dr. W. R. Pugh exhibited some beautiful recent dissections of the heads 
of Tasmanian snakes, to illustrate the peculiarity of the teeth and poison 
apparatus. 
Mr. R. C. Gunn exhibited specimens of two species of Tasmanian Tree 
Fern , viz. the Dicksonia Antarctica, Labill., and Ahophila australis , Ur. 
The Dicksonia is common in almost every shaded valley in the colony ; 
but Mr. Gunn observed that he had not seen the Alsophila except at 
George Town and the Asbestos hills. In both localities the Alsophila was 
growing in a more open, and less shaded situation than that usually 
affected by the Dicksonia . 
December 4,1844. 
Godfrey IIowitt, M.D. of Melbourne, William West garth, Esq. of Mel¬ 
bourne, and C. S. Henty, Esq. of Launceston, were elected members. 
A letter from Colonel Sabine, dated 28th May, 1844, to the Secretary 
of the Tasmanian Society was read. It conveyed the gratifying infor¬ 
mation, that the Council of the British Association for the Advancement 
of Science, had unanimously resolved that the Tasmanian Society should 
be added to the list of public institutions entitled to receive gratuitously 
the annual volume of the Reports of the British Association ; and that a 
complete set of the reports from the period of the first meeting at York in 
1831, should further be presented to the Society. 
Read a letter from the Secretary of the Geological Society, acknow¬ 
ledging the receipt of Nos. 6 and 7, of the Tasmanian Journal. 
Dr. Grant read a paper “ On the Reproductive Organs of the Marsu- 
pialia and Monotrcmata.” 
March 5, 1845. 
Lieut. Smith, lt.N., Magnetic Observatory, Hobart Town j J. A. F. 
Simpkinson, Esq., R.N. ditto; -Jeffery, Esq., R.N. ditto; were 
elected members. 
Specimens of some fossil bones from Mount Macedon, Port Phillip, were 
exhibited, and a short account of the locality in which they are found, by 
Hr. E. C. Hobson, was read. 
Mr. R. C. Gunn exhibited ‘specimens of Claudca elegans, Lam., a beau¬ 
tiful Alga, from George Town ; an account of which, with a plate, is 
