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Minutes of the 
Lieut. M. C. Friend, R.N., exhibited a series of fossil shells 
from the secondary limestone at the Black Brush collected bv 
Dr. W. R. Pugh. J 
A fine specimen of that curious crustacean, Ibacus Peronii 
obtained by the Rev. J. Garrett from a fisherman, who stated 
that he caught it on the coast a little to the east of George Town 
was exhibited by Mr. James Grant. It was 5| inches long and 
3J inches wide at the widest part of the carapace. 
Mr. James Grant mentioned having seen swallows (Hirundo 
nigricans, Viell. ; II. pyrrhonotus, Vig. & Horsf. ; Collocalia 
arborea, Gould.) this day for the first time this season. They 
usually appear at Launceston about 1st September. 
Lieut. W. H. Breton, R.N., observed that he had been 
informed that Snipes ( Gallinago Australis, Lath. ; Scolopax 
Hardwickii, Gray) had been seen early in August; their usual 
time of arrrival being about 1st September. 
September 15, 1847. 
Read some additional particulars relative to the poisonous legu¬ 
minous plant at Swan River, and a specimen of it was exhibited 
by Mr. Gunn ; also specimens of the Gompholobiums of Tasmania. 
Dr. James Grant exhibited two very curious species of Shark 
and a Diodon, obtained by the Rev. J. Garrett in the river Tamar 
at Whirlpool Reach. 
Dr. Grant also exhibited a specimen of Carboniferous slate 
closely resembling Graphite, stated to have been obtained from 
the east coast. 
September 29, 1847. 
John Helder Wedge, Esq., was elected a member. 
Read extract from a letter from His Honor C. J. Latrobe 
Esq., dated 23rd September, addressed to Mr. R. C. Gunn as 
follows:— 
“ I can add little about the Bunyip ! beyond this, that I am 
more and more convinced that there are two large nondescript 
animals to be found in our waters ; that of which our blacks give 
a description being quite distinct from that which appears to fre¬ 
quent the waters and lakes more to the north. A third animal 
of which glimpses have been seen occasionally in the waters 
directly cornmuniqating with the sea is, I have no doubt, a Seal. 
I send you two sketches of the animal described by our blacks, 
and these coincide in the main with those which I have seen 
delineated by the tribes north of Mount Macedon. No. 1 was 
sketched upon the sand in front of Capt. Lonsdale’s cottage, and 
though ten or twelve feet long was still said by the artist not to 
be quite as large as life. A few days after, being at the native 
police station, Dandenong, I made some inquiries amongst the 
