7. From S. Hannaford, Esq., specimen of Sipunculus from Corio Bay, 



Geelong. 



8. From Captain T. Nichols, Skeleton of a Fish, from Howe's Island. 



9. From Mr. J. Kelly, One Shilling of Queen Anne, 1707, and a Danish 



Copper Coin, 1771. 

 10. From Mr. S. H. Wintle :— 



(aj. A Vegetahle Impression in Shale, from a height of between 

 ' three and four thousand feet on Mount Wellington (Endogeno- 



phyllites Wellingtonensis. McCoy.) 

 (bj . A Cluster of Plant Impressions from a Claystone Formation in 

 Patrick-street. 

 [In reference to this specimen, Mr. Wintle mentioned in his note that he 

 had for a number of years past been in the habit of examining the for- 

 mation from which it was obtained, whenever he happened to be in the 

 locality, but had not succeeded in finding any trace of organic structure 

 until about three weeks ago, when he discovered several impressions simi- 

 lar to those presented. He also stated that he had sent some to Professor 

 McCoy, who considers them of great importance, and will shortly deter- 

 mine the position they hold in the scale of fossil flora.] 



(cj. Fragments of Shale, bearing impressions of Cryptogamic Plants 



from New Town. 

 (dJ. Specimen of Pholas sp. from Rocks below Sandy Fay. 

 (ej. Collection of specimens of Coleoptra, &c. 

 (fj. Gall Fly and Nest, also a smaller species, with its Larva. 



The Hon. Secretary read notes by Mr. Wintle, on the fossils and other 

 objects presented by him. The recent Pholas, with its perfect syphon, 

 preserved in spirits, and the shell of another embedded in the clay rock, 

 into which the animal had bored to a considerable depth, were examined 

 with interest, as also were the large and small Gall Flies, which produce 

 their characteristic growths on the leaves of the gum and other trees. As 

 to one of the fossils (No. 10, a) a letter was read from Professor McCoy, to 

 whom it had been sent by Mr. Wintle for examination, and by whom, as 

 a new species, it had been named EndogenoplnjlUtes Wellingtonensis. 



Mr. M. Allport called attention to the many interesting specimens pre- 

 sented by Mr? Wintle ; and mentioned in reference to the vegetable re- 

 mains occurring in the clay rock, that similar impressions had been many 

 years ago found by him (Mr. Allport) in vast numbers, in a qiiarry at the 

 Old Beach, but from the coarser material, the difficulty of assigning to 

 them their correct position amongst fossil flora was very great. Recently, 

 Mr. Allport had found similar remains in a quarry near the Cascades, and 

 that gentleman remarked that if a few more would interest themselves in 

 a strict search, the probability was strong that remains of greater palaeon- 

 tological interest, and which would fix the geological age of the whole 

 of these rocks, might be found. Referring to the wasp's nest presented 

 by Mr. Wintle, Mr. Allport presented a similar nest with the wasp which 

 constructed it, the wasp having been watched at work on the nest, caught 

 and brought to the donor by a boy only five years old. 



Mr. Barnard, in continuation of a former paper on the subject, read 

 the following communication relative to the Esparto Grass, and laid on 

 the table a sheet of Esparto paper :— "It may be in the recollection of the 

 Fellows that, at the meeting of the Royal Society which was held on the 

 evening of the 14th July last, on the occasion of submitting some ob- 

 servations on the desirability of acclimatizing the Esparto Grass for the 

 manufacture of paper, with a view to the establishment of a paper mill in 

 Tasmania, I was requested to prosecute the enquiry, and obtain further 

 information on a subject considered of wide importance. Accordingly, 



