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has successfully bred salmon, taken after spawning, from one river to 
another; and the same has been done in other places. But what strikes us 
as noticeable in the above report is the evidence it affords of the readiness 
with which the Government in France, however constituted, applies itself 
to the encouragement of domestic industry upon the announcement of any 
discovery in science or the arts, which in our country would be left to 
private enterprise, and either carried on to private profit, or languish 
under the obstruction of ‘‘ vested interests.” In one ‘ salmon seminary,” 
in a province in France, last year, two engineers, from their own resources, 
raised 1,000,000 trouts, salmon, and mixed breed; what, then, might not 
be done by the wealthy proprietors of salmon fishings in the Tay, in the 
way of increased production of the finest species of that fish which fre- 
quents that river? Little can be done without combination ; and the history 
, of the Tay fishings affords proof that ‘‘ coalitions” are as little relished on 
its banks in that branch of productive industry as in politics, : 
The Sceretary read a long and interesting letter from R. Kippist, Esq., 
of the Linnean Society of London, upon a collection of plants made at 
Macquarie Harbour by Mr. Milligan, and by him transmitted to the Lin- 
nan Society. 
The thanks of the Society were voted to the persons making donations 
and communications, and the members separated about nine o'clock. 
{4c Suerremper, 1853.—Monthly Evening Mlegsing His Excellency 
Sir W. 'T. Denison, President, in the chair, 
After a ballot the following gentlemen were declared duly elected tty 
the Society:—John Leake, of Rosedale; James ‘Richardson, of Hagley ; 
T. L. Gellibrand, Henry. Palmer, ‘Alfred Wilkinson, and E. J. Dawes, 
of Hobart Town. 
The presentations were as follows—From Dr. Kenworthy, a Treatise on 
the Microscope and Microscopie objects; a sample of grain gold inter- 
mixed with oxide of tin from the diggings at the Ovens, Victoria, 
From Miss Butterworth, six specimens in duplicate of the decimal 
copper coinage of the East India Company—namely, cent, half-cent, and _ 
quarter-cent in circulation at Singapore. 
From Mr. Gibson, of Circular Head, specimens of quartzose rock from 
the vicinity of the Black River there, of which large samples have been 
forwarded to England, under the supposition of its being auriferous. 
From Mr, H, Hull, sceds of Martynia Sragrans, from. the Mauritius, 
for the Society’s gardens, 
From Mr. Dickenson, specimens of Micaceous Schist, veined with 
quartz, from the Hee HbONTH OA of Lake Dixon. 
From Mr. Rolwegan, specimens of Sandstone, altered into a compact 
siliceous rock by igneous action, and having imbedded in its substance 
spherical bodies about three quarters of an inch in diameter, with a 
