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§th November, 1853.—Monthly Evening Meeting; His Excellency Sir 
W. T. Denison, President, in the chair. The meeting was numerously 
attended. : ’ 
The following gentlemen were ballotted for and duly elected into the 
Society:—The Rey. George Banks Smith, of Invermay; the Rev. Henry 
Plow Kane, of Launceston; the Rey. James Norman, of Launceston ; 
William Stammers Button, Mayor of Launceston; William and Philip 
Barnes, of Trevallyn and Launceston; St. John E. Browne, William Camp- 
hell, William Cleveland, Henry St. John Brown, James Smith, Richard 
Green, Henry Norman Browne, and George Eddie, of Launceston; and 
Frederick Maitland. Innes, of Patterson’s Plains, Also W. A. Sandford, 
Colonial Secretary, Western Australia; Henry Butler Stoney, 99th 
Regiment; Charles D’Almeida Lempricre, of Brighton; Frederick Hall, 
John Forster and Isaac Wright, of Hobart Town. . 
The following presentations were made: — é 
To the Library—One 4to volume (3rd) of Magnetical and Meteorological 
Observations, taken at the Observatory, Hobart 'Town; forwarded by the 
British Government, and deposited with the Society by order of Hiy 
Excellency. 
Report on the Vegetation of the Colony of Victoria, by the Government 
Botanist there; printed, published, and forwarded hither by the Govern- 
ment, and transferred to the Society by Sir W. Denison. 
One volume folio, dated London, 1618, entitled ‘‘ The French Aca- 
demie, in foure Bookes: 1. Institutions of Manners and Customs of all 
Estates. 2.Concerning the Soul and Body of Man. 8. A notable de- 
scription of the whole World. 4, Christian Philosophie instructing the true 
and only means to Eternal Life. By Peter De La Primadelaye, Esquire, 
‘Lord of Barre, Chancellour and Steward of the French King’s House,” 
_ From Mr. Charles Peters, of Fingal, a book respectable for its age, and 
not more remarkable for the variety of its subject matter than the curious 
quaintness of its style. 
Tasmanian Atheneum, No. 2, from the Editors, 
Augustus F. Smith, Esq., of the 99th Regiment, presented for the 
Museum the model of a Telegraph Staff, with a sheet having four new 
codes of coloured signals displayed, and fully described upon it, invented 
by himself. 4 : 
Peter Fraser, Esq., Colonial Treasurer, presented the well-preserve 
antlered head of a roe-buck (Cervus capreolus, Linn.), shot by himself in 
the north of Scotland. : : 
George Whitcomb, Esq., presented a spirit preparation of the Spiny 
Lizard (Moloch horridus), of Western Australia; together with a section 
of the stem of a plant, (probably a Dracena), from the same locality, under 
the name of cabbage-tree. 
A mixed collection of dried Ferns, Lichens, Algx, and Corallines, made 
for the late Captain Matthew Forster, at Norfolk Island, was received from, 
John Forster, Esq. 
