IV 
PREFACE. 
pages confined to our members only; for it would 
be unworthy of Tasmania to suppose that there 
are not many whose researches are of value to 
our country, and whose names are nevertheless 
unrecorded in our list. When we look through 
that gradually increasing list which comprises the 
names of the members of the Tasmanian Society, we 
feel that, however humble our pretensions may be, it 
is in our power, by patient and persevering exertion, 
to achieve that honour for our body which we never 
could attain single-handed. The exaltation of this 
country of ours depends not so much upon its 
natural treasures, nor yet upon the endowments of 
the inhabitants, as upon their diligence in its service, 
and the largeness of their desires for its welfare. 
