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127m Ocrozsr, 1853.—Monthly Evening Meeting, 
On the motion of H. Hull, Esq, the chair was taken by D. T. Kilburn 
Esq., in the absence of His Excellency the President, and the Vice- 
Presidents. 
Upon-a ballot for new members, the following gentlemen were declared 
duly elected :—W. J. Carroll, M. D.; Philip Ravenhill and Augustus 
Frederick Smith, 99th Regiment, Hobart Town; Alexander Clerke, 
M.L.C. of Mountford; James J. Bayles, of Rokeby; William Langdon, 
M.L.C. of Montacute; George Fordyce Story, M.D., of Grainge, Swanport ; 
James Vautin and Lorenzo Lodge, of Hobart Town, 
The following donations were made. For the Library—39 volumes (neatly 
hound) of the “ Transactions of the Society of Arts of London,” by George 
Carr Clarke, Esq., of Ellenthorpe Hall. One bound folio volume, being an 
attested ‘ Fac-simile of Washington’s Accounts,” during the eventful 
period from June 1775 to June 1783, by E. Hathaway, Esq., 
U.S. Consul.“ Jewish Calendar,’ by Phineas Moss, Esq. ‘‘ Tasmanian 
Athenxum,” No, 1, from the Editors. ‘“ Information regarding the Colony 
of Van Diemen’s eget intended for the use of Emigrants, &c.,” from the 
Government Printer. ‘ Journal of Society of Arts,” from 20th May, 1835. 
For the Museum—Specimens of thin seams of bituminous coal and 
associated fire-clay obtained from a shaft sunk to the depth of 100 feet at 
the Barrabool Hills, in the immediate vicinity of Geelong, forwarded by 
Robert Garrett, Esq., of Geelong, and John Roberts, Esq., of this city. 
It does not appear that coal-seams of a workable thickness have as yet 
been met with in the province of Victoria. 
From Mrs, Arnold, samples of sand from Forest Creek, Victoria, con- 
taining numerous small crystals, supposed to be ruby, with specks of 
water-worn gold, &c. 
From Captain Smith, of the Coal Mines, Tasman’s Peninsula, samples of 
Algz, cast up on Slopen Island, known to yield a pure and delicious jelly, 
to which purpose it has for years been applied. 
From A. M. Lochner, Esq., three Crania of aborigines of New Zealand, 
New South Wales, and Tasmania, affording a good opportunity for con- 
trasting the superior intellectual development of the first with the prepon- 
derating animal faculties of the latter. 
Mr. Milligan added to the collection a dried specimen of Diodon from 
D’Entrecasteaux’s Channel. 
The following books, added to the library by purchase since last meet- 
ing, lay on the table for inspection:—‘ Wood’s Practical Treatise on 
Railroads, &c. ;” “ Tredgold on the Steam Engine, Steam Navigation, and 
. Construction of Steamboats, &c.,’’ 2 vols., 4to; ‘* Conchologia Iconica,” of 
Reeve, Nos. 116 to 120—a work so accurately designed, and coloured 
with such fidelity, as to constitute in itself a collection of figures almost 
as useful as the most ample and varied cabinet of Conchology; also 
“Gould’s Trochilide,” parts 3 and 4; ‘“Gould’s Birds of Asia,” parts 
3 and 4—works finished in a style beyond all praise. 
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