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at Bakery Hill, Ballaarat, lltli of June, 1858. This is not, 

 however, the largest on record, as in 1869 another, the 

 " Welcome Stranger,"' of a value of £9,534 (over 2,280 ozs. when 

 found), was unearthed at Dunolly, a locality where countless 

 smaller nuggets have been found.* Next in weight come the 

 "Precious" (1,717 ozs. gross weight), and Viscount Canterbury 

 (1,121 ozs.), both found at Berlin, Victoria. 



New South Wales has not so many recorded nuggets. The 

 largest masses of gold found in this colony are : Doctor Kerr's 

 so called " Hundredweight Nugget," found by a native in 1851, at 

 Meroo Creek, Turon River ; and a hundredweight of gold blasted 

 at one time by Beyer and Holtermann at Hawkins Hill in 1873. 



A list of the nuggets found in New South Wales is given in 

 Professor Liversidge's " Minerals of New South Wales." From 

 this list it can be seen that numerous nuggets, especially from 

 Kiandra, have been melted without models having been taken of 

 them. Those represented in the Museum which are not in that list 

 are : one from Gulgong, with the shape of a hook at one end ; 

 one from Temora (161 ozs,), found in 1884 ; two from Cadia, near 

 Orange (60 and 32 ozs.) The last has been named the 

 " Ly-ee-moon," having been given to the wreck fund by its owner, 

 Mr. H. W. Newman, of Lucknow. The "Maitland Bar Nugget" is 

 a magnificent specimen, showing quartz and crystals of gold. It 

 was found in 1877, at a depth of five feet, and is valued at 

 £1,236. 



Besides the models of nuggets, alluvial gold is represented by a 

 collection of over fifty specimens from New South Wales. Gold 

 from granite regions is in general scaly. 



Gold in quartz is shown from Victoria, New South Wales, 

 Queensland, New Zealand, South Australia, and Tasmania ; gold 

 in calcite from Lucknow, Tea-tree (south of Barraba), Tuena, 

 in New South Wales, and from the Transvaal, South Africa. 



Specimens of dendritic gold in serpentine and in mispikel 

 (arsenical pyrites), from Lucknow and dendritic gold from New 

 Caledonia are also exhibited. 



*R. Brough Smyth, Goldfields of Victoria, 1869, p. 600. 



