502. Proceedings. 
India—that, ere long, these will be connected with the European sys- 
tems of Electric Telegraphs, and that the day is probably not far dis- — 
tant when a branch of the ‘“ Great Trunk Line” will be extended along 
the Malay Peninsula and through the Archipelago by Timor to North 
Australia, (where in all probability there may again be a British settle- 
ment formed), and thence onward by Western Australia and Adelaide to 
the gold regions of Victoria. 
Mr. Kilburn exhibited his Stereoseope, and promised to reproduce it 
at next meeting. It is an instrument at once curious, interesting, and 
delightful to examine, and is a remarkable instance of the mastery of 
exact science, and as haying been one of the many wonderful and valuable 
products of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 
137 Jury, 1853.—Monthly Evening .Mecting ; Robert Officer, Esq., a 
Vice-President, in the chair. 
A ballot took place, when the following gentlemen were declared duly 
elected Fellows of the Society :—John Charles Blackett, of Auckland, New 
Zealand; Frederick Augustus Ducroz, of Launceston; Augustus Meyer 
Lochner, R.E., of Hobart Town; Charles Degraves, of Cascades; John 
F. Cox; James H. Burgess; Robert Lee, B.A., of Hobart Town; and on 
the recommendation of the Council, the Rev. J. H. Fisher, Vicar of 
Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, England, was elected an Honorary 
Corresponding Member. 
The following presentations were made to the Library—By order of the 
Hon. the Speaker of the Legislative Council of Van Diemen’s Land, one 
volume of “ Votes and Proceedings” for the 2nd Session of 1852.—From 
Mr. Warren’, of Argyle-street, one quarto volume in Latin on religious and 
moral subjects, printed in Black Letter, illuminated, without title-page, 
name of the author, place or date when printed—the manuscript portion 
bearing the date of 1472, and as the art of printing was not introduced 
into England till 1474, the press from which this book issued was pro- 
bably German, and its date of publication one or more years antecedent to 
the time of its illumination—From E. Hathaway, Esq., United States 
Consul, were received six very elaborate and valuable Charts of Winds 
and Currents prevailing in various seas throughout the World; by Lieut. 
Maury, of the American Navy. : 
Mr. Dobson remarked that Lieut. Maury made the N.E. and 8.8. Trade 
Winds cross into opposite hemispheres, instead of maintaining the old 
theory of ascent near the Equator. 
A copy of the “ Reports of the Jurors,” and an Exhibitor’s Certificate 
from the Industrial Exhibition of 1851, for the Council of the Royal 
Society of Van Diemen’s Land, were placed on the table. 
The following donations: were made the Museum :—From the Hon. 
Colonel Butterworth, C.B., a section nches in diameter and 2 feet in 
