li 



12. From Col. Crawford. Specimen of Sucking Fish (Echeneis remora). 



13. From Mrs. Wm. Crosby, jun. Specimen of Shell and animal of 



Nautilus, 



14. From Mr. E. D. Swan. A Diamond Snake (Morelia spiiotesj 



from the Quarantine Station, Sydney, prepared and mounted. 



15. From the Hon. the Minister of Lands and Works, N. J. Brown. 



Model of a Gold Nugget found at the Whyte River, Tasmania, by 

 McG-inty and party, February 18, 1883. Weight, 243oz. 



16. Ditto from the same locality, found by Grifi&n and partv, March, 



1883. Weight, 143oz. 6dwts. 



17. From Mr. C. Edge. A diamond snake ( Hoplocephalus superhus) 



from near Hobart Waterworks. 



18. From Mr. J. Whittaker, A large black snake . ( HoplocepJialus 



curtusj from Cascade Gully. 



19. From Mr. C. Glover. E.ock specimens. Copper ore, etc, from 



High Rocky Head, West Coast, Tasmania. 



20. From Messrs. G. C. Westbrook and Edward Young, specimen 



of the Port Jackson shark ( Gestradon Philippi). 



21. From Mr, Hume. Fossil leaf impressions from N. S. Wales. 



22. From Mr. W. F. Petterd. Specimens of new species of Tas- 



manian mammals described in a paper by Dr. Higgins and the 

 donor. 



23. From Mr. H. H. Baily. Two large specimens of silver lead 



ore from Mount Claude. 



24. From Mr. Thos. Davis. Plates of baleen (whalebone) from Cloudy 



Bay Beach, D'Entrecasteaux Channel. 



25. From Mr. John Page. An aboriginal stone implement from the 



Eastern Marshes. 



26. From Mr. T. Stephens. Three specimens of Tasmanian Woods 



polished, via,, native sandal wood (Alyxia huxifolia), Red pine 

 {Athrotaxis sclaginoides) and pencil cedar pine {Athrotaxis cupres- 



27. From Master J. A. Murphy. Specimens of small crustaceans 

 (Grimothea gregaria?) recently washed on shore in immense 

 numbers at Howrah, Kangaroo Point, and the adjacent bays. 



28. From Mr. John Cotton, Earlham, Orford. A large file, thickly 

 encrusted with oxide of iron, found in the Sandspit River. (In 

 reference to this presentation Mr. Cotton remarks, "I am at a 

 loss to conjecture how such an instrument could get where 

 found. I have resided here now 25 years and never had a file 

 of the kind, and the very few and far between visitors who 

 come to our river are poor fishers, not likely to be possessed of an 

 implement of that description. It would be interesting to know 

 its history.") 



29. From Dr. Barnard. 25 specimens of minerals, etc., chiefly from New 

 South Wales, viz., model of a gold nugget weighing 64oz,, found 

 near Gulgong, N.S.W. Gold-bearing copper ore from Mitchell's 

 Creek. Ditto, copper ore from Girilambone, ditto. Ditto, con- 

 taining 56 per cent, of copper, from Wellington, N.S.W. Ditto 

 (best) from Girilambone. Ditto, peacock and yellow, from Gul- 

 gong, N.S.W. Ditto, ditto, from Wellington. Native copper, from 

 ditto. Green carbonate of copper in crystals. Silver ore from 

 Narangarie, N.S.W. Ditto, from Boorook, ditto. Gold and 

 mineral-bearing quartz from Wellington, N.S.W. Ore of zinc and 

 iron from Bolara, N.S.W. Lead ore from near Gulgong, N.S.W. 

 Specimen of fossil wood. Ore of Bismuth from New England, 

 N.S.W. Cinnabar from Cudgegong. Nickel ore from New 

 Caledonia. Crystals of iron pyrites. Ditto from silver mines 

 of Potosi, South America. Three specimens of foseil leaf im- 



