114 DONATIONS. 
“List of Members of the Geological Society of Australasia, &c.” 
From the Society. 
“The Journal of Conchology.” Vol. V., No. 7. July, 1887; 
Leeds, 1887. From the Conchological Society of Great Britain. 
“Results of Meteorological Observations made in New South 
Wales during 1887, under the direction of H. C. Russell, Govern- 
ment Astronomer.” Sydney, 1887. From the Government 
Astronomer. 
“ Mittheilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wein,” 
XVII, Band, II. Heft; Wein. 1887. From the Society. 
The following Papers were read :— 
“NOTE ON A PAPER ENTITLED ‘THE MINERAL SCOLECITE 
OCCURRING ON GRANITE AT CHARTERS ToweERSs,’” by E. B. 
Lindon, A.R.S.M. (vide pp. 111). 
“A REPLY TO THE PRECEDING Norte,” by A. W. Clarke, 
Government Mineralogical Lecturer (vde pp. 112). 
THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF GOLD 
IN QUEENSLAND: 
BY 
N. BARTLEY, Esa. 
Communicated by HENRY TRYON. 
(Read oth September, 1887.) 
As some published statements on this subject are incorrect, I have 
thought it worth while (having been in the colony from its earliest 
“golden days”) to make a few notes for record on it; and this 
subject is one of importance, as Queensland is destined to be the 
leading gold producer of the world, and all that bears on her 
earlier efforts in that direction is consequently worthy of rescue 
from oblivion and error. I was one of the first to go North to 
California in 1849 and I helped to excavate the first properly 
timbered gold tunnel in Australia in August, 1851, at the Turon. 
I was an original shareholder in the first registered gold mining 
company formed in Australia in 1852, at Louisa Creek, and I 
claim therefore some interest in the subject. 
