Proceedings for the month of March, 1854

Proceedings of the Monthly Meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania held on the 8th March, 1854, His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison, President, in the chair; The following gentlemen were ballotted for and duly elected into the Society: The Reverend Francis Hales, B.A., of Launceston. The Rev. J. Tice Gellibrand, M.A., of Richmond. William Henry Barnard, Esq., of Geelong, Victoria.
Robert Clark, Esq., of Malahide. John Murphy, Esq., of Sydney. Frederick Robert Lees, Esq., Edward Swarbeck Hall, Esq., George Hutton, Esq., and Samuel Tapfield, Esq., of Hobart Town.
Upon the recommendation of the Council, W. J. Macquorn Rankine, Esq., C.E. F.R.S.E., F.R.S.S.A., was elected a Corresponding Member.
The Secretary announced the presentation, by John Lyne, Esq., of Apslawn, Swanport, of an English translation of Dr. Dodoen's Herbal, published in London, in 1619, substantially bound in calf, considered a curious, rare, and valuable work. A new herbal, or, Historie of plants : wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants, their diuers and sundry kinds, their names, natures, operations, and vertues : and that not onely of those which are here growing in this our country of Engalnd [sic], but of all others also of forraine realmes commonly vsed in physicke / first set forth in the Dutch or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens ; and now first translated out of French into English by Henry Lyte, Imprinted at London : By Edward Griffin, 1619. - Availvable from the the Special & Rare Collection, Morris Miller-Royal Society Rare-Book QK 41 .D63 1619