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127u January, 1853.—Monthly evening mecting, held at the Museum, 
Harrington-street ; His Excellency Sir William Denison, President, in 
the chair. 
After a ballot the following gentlemen were declared duly elected :— 
A. T. Stuart, Esq., of Port Arthur. 
J. F. Hull, Esq., of Tolosa. 
A letter was read from the Colonial Secretary transmitting, for the 
Society’s Library, papers and pamphlets on the Cultivation of Flax in 
Ireland, including the Annual Report, &c., for 1851 of the Royal Society 
for promoting the Growth of Flax in Ireland, and ‘the Flax Movement,” 
by the Chevalier Claussen. 
A letter was read transmitting, by command of the Lieutenant- 
Governor, the Second Volume of Magnetical and Meteorological Observa- 
tions taken at the Observatory, Hobart Town; printed under the superin- 
tendence of Colonel Sabine, and forwarded by the British Government. 
A letter was read transmitting, by command of His Excellency Sir 
William Denison, 16 volumes (half-bound in Russia leather) of Table 
Circulars and Priced Lists of 876 Contributors to the Exhibition of the 
Industry of All Nations in 1851, forwarded by Her Majesty’s Commis- 
sioners. 
Dr. Agnew presented a copy of “ Directions for Collecting and Pre- 
serving Animals,” &c., published by the Council of the Royal College of 
Surgeons, London. 7 
The Secretary reported receipt, from the Agricultural and Horticultural 
Society of India, of Part 2, vol. 8, of their Journal, and that Copies of the 
Geological Report on the Gold-fields in Wellington and Bathurst, New 
South Wales, by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir T. L. Mitchell, F.G.8., and of the 
Pamphlet on the new genus of Sperm Whale (Huphesctes ), have been pre- 
sented by James Mitchell, Esq., of Sydney, late of the Commissariat here, 
The Secretary reported the following presentations to the Museum :— 
From Alexander M‘Naughtan, Esq., several hundred specimens of land 
and sea shells from the Mauritius, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, &c., many 
of them curiously mounted on stands by the Chinese; also of some very 
beautiful and delicate specimens of filagree work, executed in silver by 
