Proceedings for the month of April, 1854

Proceedings of the Monthly Meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania held on the 19th April, 1854, the chair was occupied by Joseph Hone, Esq. The following gentlemen having been ballotted for were declared duly elected Fellows of the Society : John Michael Gould, Esq., William Newman Shadwell Keen, Esq., William Lempriere, John Whyte, Esq., Hugh Percy Sorell, Esq., all of Hobart Town and Alfred Selwyn, Esq., Government Geologist, Victoria, and William Sorell, Esq., of Melbourne. The following donation was made to the Library and Museum by Mr. P. S. Tomlins ; Narrative of the Atrocities committed by Michael Howe and his associates, Bushrangers, in Van Diemen's Land;" printed and published at Hobart Town in 1818, and said to be the first book which issued from the Press of this colony. Estimation of the cost of constructing a line of electric telegraph between Launceston and Hobart Town.