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Minutes of the Tasmanian Society. 
The Secretary announced having received from Ills Honor C. 
J. Latrobe, Esq., the series of Meteorological Tables, kept at 
Melbourne during 1847. 
April 12, 1848. 
Read « A list of Birds which frequent the upper portion of the 
River Goulburn, in the district of Port Phillip, New South Wales.” 
By Mr. John Cotton, C.M.Z.S. (Printed at page 361 of the 
present number of the Tasmanian Journal.) 
Mr. Ronald C. Gunn mentioned that he had recently ascended 
the mountain called How Torr, (Mount Arthur of some maps) 
situated a few miles N.E. of Launceston, elevated 4,300 feet 
above the sea, (Stokes’ Chart of Bass’s Strait) and found the rock 
on the summits highly magnetic; so that the N. point of a 
compass when placed on different parts indicated horn 20° west 
of the true north to 90° east of that point. Mr. Gunn had ob¬ 
served similar results on the peaks of the western mountains, 
(vide Tasmanian Journal , vol. ii, p. 391) and expressed an 
opinion that all the elevated points of the mountains of Tasmania 
which are composed of greenstone would be found highly mag¬ 
netic also. 
Mr. Gunn exhibited numerous specimens of the leaves of 
Eucalypti which had the epidermis and parenchyma removed by 
insects, leaving the beautiful network of veins admirably shewn in 
the same manner as is sometimes artificially done by maceration. 
April 26, 1848. 
C. S. Henty, Esq., exhibited a very extensive and beautiful 
series of the algae of Tasmania, collected by him at George Town 
during the summer. 
May 10, 1848. 
Read a paper by W. H. Breton, Esq., “ on a species ot Tas¬ 
manian Sjihceria, growing from a caterpillar, found at Franklin 
Village, near Launceston.” (Described at page 77, vol. iii. Tas¬ 
manian Journal.) Mr. Breton illustrated his paper by numerous 
specimens, and also produced specimens of the Moth ol the Cater¬ 
pillar, which bears this peculiar fungus. 
Mr. R. C. Gunn produced specimens of a species of Comatula 
found under the stones at low water in the sea, near George Town. 
Mr. R. C. Gunn exhibited numerous specimens of fossil wood 
found embedded in a very hard siliceous conglomerate, at For¬ 
mosa, Lake River. 
