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Sri Junn, 1853.—Monthly Evening Meeting. In the absence of His 
Excellency the President and of the Vice-Presidents, the chair was occu- 
pied by James Barnard, Esq., a member of the Council of the Society. 
The following gentlemen, having been proposed and ballotted for, were 
declared duly elected into the Society :—Robert Pringle Stuart, A.P.M. of 
George Town; George Carr Clarke, of Ellinthorpe Hall; Arthur Smith, 
of Ross; Pringle Whyte, of Glendhu; John Price, of Hobart Town ; 
James Dixon, of Skelton Castle; and the Rey. Dr. Herman Hoeltzel, of 
Hobart Town. 
The Secretary read a note from His Excellency Sir William ey 
transmitting for the Society’s Library ‘(The Journal of the Royal Geo- 
graphical Society of London,” Vol. 22, and ‘The Second Report of the 
Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851.” : : 
A communication from William J. Hamilton, Esq., Secretary of the 
Geological Society of London, was read, acknowledging the receipt of 
Part 1, Vol. 2,.of Papers and Proceedings of this Society. 
A communication from Edward Solly, Esq., Secretary to the Society of 
Arts, London, was read, presenting the “Journal of the Society of Arts, 
&ce.,” No. 14, and soliciting interchanges. 
The Secretary announced receipt of the ‘ Journal of the Royal Institu- 
tion of Great Britain,” Part 2, and of the Report, with lists of members, 
officers, &c., for 1851. 
Mr. Milligan announced receipt of two cases of books (Awards of the 
Juries), large and handsomely-bound volumes, of which one is ordered, by 
Her Majesty’s Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, to be presented 
to Tasmanian Exhibitors; amongst them a veut (laid on the table) for 
the Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land. 
Mr. Ronald C. Gunn forwarded for presentation to the Library of the 
Royal Society “Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the collection of 
the British Museum.” - 
The Rey. Mr. Cohen sent for the Museum two medals, one of Count 
Meellendorf 1793, and one haying on one side a head of Moses, the Jewish 
Lawgiver, with the leading words of the Decalogue on the reverse, in 
Hebrew. ) 
Mr. Thomas Browne, of Macquaric-street, presented an Irish halfpenny 
of 1725, and an Indian copper coin. 
Mr. Brock of Macquarie-street, presented a two-real piece (OND) of 
New Grenada. 
My. C. T. Smith contributed a Gordius in a bottle of water. 
Mr. Samuel Moses presented a silk waistcoat once worn by the famous 
“Tom Thumb,” 
Mr. F. W. Newman presented a few of the grotesque seed vessels of 
Trapa bicornis, the kernel of which is eaten by the Chinese ; also, from the 
Island of Formosa, a section of the pith of the Araliaceous plant, from 
which Rice Paper is cut by the Chinese. 
Mr. Macnaughtan presented specimens of a fossiliferous clay, taken from 
