The following presentations to the Library were specially brought 

 under notice, viz.: — 



1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 4, 



part 4 ; from Mr. E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., etc. 



2. " Synonymy of, and Remarks upon Port Jackson, New Caledonian, 



and other Shells." By John Brazier, C.M.Z.S., from the Author. 



3. " The eleventh Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural 



History," New York. From the Trustees. [Attention was 



directed to the photographs by which this report is illustrated, 



which convey a grand idea of the large and liberal scale on which 



the Museum has been founded ; and also indicate the lines on 



which its future great extension will be carried out.J 



The following extract from a letter from Dr. Dennys, Curator of the 



Raffles Museum, Singapore, was read : — " I take^ however, great interest 



in the science of conchology, and am most anxious to complete my 



collection by all available means. I can exchange local species for 



Australian or Tasmanian, having not a single shell from either locality 



(except Plios sentkosus from N. Australia). At present I have about 



500 species, almost exclusively Malayan and Philippine. I have 



promises, however, from Mauritius, Zanzibar, China, etc , and maybe 



able to offer you a fair quid pro quo. Being Curator of our local Museum, 



I have many opportunities of obtaining articles which might be welcome 



in your part of the world ; kindly state what you most want. Our 



mammals are not very numerous, and are expensive, a dead tiger 



commanding oOdol., or roughly £10. Of reptiles I could send a good 



collection, as also of local birds. I should like four specimens at least of 



every shell [i.e. two for the Museum, and two for myself) you can 



obtain. If you could send me a list of the Malayan shells you have, I 



should know what you would require." 



A letter from Mr. Charles Gould, dated Singapore, recommending Dr. 

 Dennys' application, and suggesting that specimens of the following 

 minerals, etc., might b© presented to the Raffles Museum, was also 

 read: — 1. Quartz with gold ; 2. Tin ore, from Mount Bischoff, in masses 

 and in sand ; 3. Bismuth, from Mount Ramsay ; 4. Topazes, from Flinders 

 Island; o. Red hsomatite ; 6. Brown do., from Ilfracombe ; 7. 

 Manganese ores, from West Coast ; 8. Rutile, from do. 

 The following papers were then read : — 



1. "On Queensland Lichens." By. F. M. B*iiley, F.L.S , and Rev. J. 

 E. Tenison-Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S. 



2. "Notes on a collection of Fossil Fruits from the 'Black Lead,' 



Gulgong, New South Wales." By C. E. Barnard, M.D. 

 The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the authors of the 

 papers read, and to the donors of the various presentations. 



