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desire took practical shape by my commencing the sorting and 

 preliminary arrangement of such Coins as the Trustees possessed. 

 A commencement was made with the Australian Tradesmen's 

 Tokens, and the work continued in the early part of last year. 

 Between February and the end of May, I succeeded in identifying, 

 labelling, and permanently arranging three hundred and forty-one 

 tokens, and preparing indication labels for a further series of three 

 hundred and seventy tokens that are required to render our collec- 

 tion anything like complete. In so doing, I have to acknowledge 

 valuable suggestions made by Dr. Mark Long, and Messrs. Basset 

 Hull, and Coleman P. Hynam. 



The Collection' of Medals was enriched by the addition of 

 original copies of the Clarke Memorial Medal, and the Prize Essay 

 Medal, of the Royal Society of New South Wales, presented by 

 the Council of the latter. The former derives its origin from a 

 sum of money bequeathed by the late Rev. W. B. Clarke, m.a., to 

 establish a medal in his memory " to be awarded from time to 

 time for meritorious contributions to the Geology, Mineralogy, 

 and Natural History of Australia." 



An electrotype of the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of 

 London, bestowed by the Council in 1776 on Capt. James 

 Cook, R N., F.R.S., in recognition of a paper read before the 

 Society on March 7th, 1776, being an account of "The Method 

 he had taken for preserving the Health of the Crew of His 

 Majesty's Ship the Resolution during his late Voyage round the 

 World." Cook was the fortieth recipient of the Copley Medal, 

 "which has long been regarded as the highest scientific distinction 

 that the Royal Society can bestow." It originated in a legacy of 

 one hundred pounds from Sir Godfrey Copley, Bart., f.r.s., left in 

 1709, and is "awarded to the author of the most scientific dis- 

 covery or contribution to science by discovery or otherwise" 

 during any one year. 



The Council of the Zoological Society of London presented two 

 bronze replicas of its silver medal, which is awarded to those "who 

 have done good service in the cause of Zoology." 



We are also indebted to the Council of the Iron and Steel 

 Institute for an electrotype of the obverse of the Bessemer Gold 

 Medal, awarded annually "for exceptional eminence in connection 

 with the manufacture of Iron and Steel." 



By donation, forty-six coins were received; six were obtained 

 by exchange; and seventy -six by purchase. 



Mineralogy. 

 (Mr. T. CooKSEY, Ph.D., B.Sc, Consulting Assistant-in-Charge). 



Dr. Cooksey reports: — "The very large and valuable collection 

 of Minerals, principally from New South Wales localities, purchased 

 from Mr. D. A. Porter, of Tamworth, was sorted, prepared for 



