482 Proceedings. 
gti Frsruary, 1853.—Monthly evening meeting; Robert Officer, Esq., 
a Vice-President, in the chair. The following gentlemen were ballotted for 
and duly elected Fellows of the Society :—His Honor Mr. Justice Barry, 
of Melbourne; George Anstey, Esq., Captain Hawkins, R.E., and Robert 
Walker, Esq., of Hobart Town. 
The Secretary reported the following presentations to the Library :— 
From the Royal Geographical Society of London, through His Excellency 
Sir William Denison, “ Anniversary Address at the Meeting of 24th May, 
1852; by Sir R.I. Murchison.” From Sir Wm. Hooker, and Dr. Joseph 
Hooker, F.R.S., sundry loose sheets consisting of “ Scientific Excursions 
in New Holland, by Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt.” “ Jtorw Tasmania: Spicile- 
gium,” with a plate of Dacrydium Franklinii ;” “ Algcee Tasmanice,” &c. 
From Walter Mantell, Esq., of New Zealand, through His Excellency 
Sir George Grey, ‘* Notice of the Discovery of the Notornis Mantelli, in the 
Middle Island of New Zealand, by Walter Mantell.’”” 
From Thomas Dobson, Esq., of the High School, Professor Done’s 
monthly “ Isothermal Lines of the Globe,” with three charts. 
From Mr. Phineas Mogs, of Hobart Town, ‘‘ The Journal of a Natu- 
ralist.” 
The following presentations to the Museum were reported :— 
From His Excellency C. J. Latrobe, Esq., through Mr. Ronald Gunn, of 
Launceston, a small collection of ‘‘ Rock specimens from the immediate 
neighbourhood of good Sir John Franklin’s last known winter quarters 
near Cape Riley, and from Port Leopold, in Prince Regent’s Inlet.” 
From the Rev. J. H. Fisher, Vicar of Kirby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, 
through Mr. Thomas Moore, per Derwentwater, a valuable collection of 
rock specimens, with fossils from the Lias and Mountain Limestone, and 
Silurian and other fossils from Germany. 
From Mr, H. Hull, a small collection of sea shells, corallines, and echini,. 
made at Kelso, by Miss Tremlett, 
From Mr. Alderman Reeves, of this city, a spirit preparation of a 
Moloch horridus (?) said to have been brought from Swan River. 
From Mr. Curzon Alport a collection of English grasses and other 
plants carefully pressed, dried and named. 
From Andrew Clarke, Esq., R.E., a neat model in wood of the bridge 
now in course of erection over the Derwent, near Dunrobin, 
From C. 0. Parsons, Esq., a specimen of black shale, capable of being 
used by carpenters as a coarse graphite for marking on wood, &c., and 
said to have been procured from strata near Bothwell. : 
From Mr, Milligan’s private collection, two specimens of the Porcupine 
Fish of the colony—one a Diodon, and the other nearly allied. ‘ 
The receipt of two cases of Mango Plants at the Society’s Gardens, pre- 
Sented by B. Berthon, Esq., was reported. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. R. C. Wood, of) Singapore, to Mr. 
Dobson, of the High School, recognising in earthquakes and voleanic action 
the Source of hurricane and other such violent disturbances, and giving a 
Series of most interesting details of typhoons and storms which haye 
