Xviii PROCEEDINGS, JUNE, 



Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries in the British Museum, 18S7. 

 — From the Trustees. 



History and description of the skeleton of a new sperm whale, lately 

 set up iu the Australian Museum, Sydney, by W. S. Wall. (A reprint.) 

 — From the Trustees. 



History and description of Mr. Tebutt'a Observatory at Windsor, 

 N.S. W., by Mr. J. Tebutt.— From the Author. 



Ibis. Current Nos. 



Journals and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 

 Paits II., III. Vol. XXI.— From the Society. 



Journals and Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania. Vols. X., XI., 

 XII. — From the Government. 



Journal of the Koyal Microscopical Society, London (current numbers). 

 — From tlie Society. 



Journal of the Royal Historical and Archioology Association of 

 Ireland. — From the Society. 



Manual of the (ieology of India. Part IV. Mineralogy (mainly non- 

 economic). By F. R. Mallet (bound). — From the Department. 



Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Vol. XXIV., Part I. 

 The .Southern Coalfields of Sarjurra Gondwana basin. — From the 

 Department. 



Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. I'alccontologica Indica. 

 Ser X. Indian Tertiary and Post Tertiary Vertebrata. \'ol. IV., 

 Part III Eocene Chelonia from the Salt Range. By R. Lydekker, 

 B.A. — From the Department. 



Memoires de la Societo Royal aes Sciences de Liege. Tome XIV^. — 

 From the Society. 



Memoires du Comite Geologique, St. Petersburg. Vo\. I. II., 

 No. 1-5. — From the Society. 



Monthly Weather Review, January, 1SS8. — From the Meteor. OflSce, 

 Canada. 



Morse collection of Japanese pottery, reprinted from the American 

 Archili.ct of May 28, 1887. Salem. Essex lustitute. — From the 

 Society. 



Proceedings and Transactions of the Queensland Branch of the Royal 

 Geographical Society of Australasia, 1886-7. Pt. III. — From the Society. 



Proceedings and Transactions of the Victorian Branch of the Royal 

 Geographical .Society of Auatralisii. Pt. I. Vol. I.^From the .Society. 



" I'syche " : A Journal of Entomology Pts. — From tlie .Society, Mass. 



Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino en Cordoba. Buenos 

 Aires. Vol. IX. 1870. — From the Department. 



Seventh Annual Report of the State Mineralogist for tlie year ending 

 October 1, 1S87. — From the Californian State Mining Bureau. 



Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. I\'., current Nos. — IVom the 

 .Society. 



Sidereal Messenger The Minnesota, by Mr. W. V. Payne, 1887. 

 — From tlie Society. .Statistical Papers of New Zealand. — From the 

 Government. 



Teaching of History in Schools, an address delivered October, 1887, 

 by Oscar Browning, F.R. Hist, S. — From the Royal Historical Society. 



Transactions and ProceoJingH of the Royal Society of \'ictoria. Vol. 

 XXIV., I'art 1, 1SS7. — From the Society. 



THE .SILVKU KXTUACTI.\(J rROCES.S. 



Mr. .J. W. Torus read a paper on the various methods employed in 

 extracting silver from argentiferous galena and otiicr ores. The iiaper 

 was one of much interest and importance. Mr. Toplis prefaced hia 

 remarks by stating that now silver oids fair to become the source of a 

 large revenue to the colony, owing to the enormous deposits recently 



