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Mr. Huxtable, of Murray-street, presented a copy of Ellis’s 
Polynesian Researches, in four volumes. 
Mr. Dobson, of Macquarie-street, presented an ornamental shield- 
like implement from New Caledonia. 
From Major Cotton was received a fragment of spiriferous clay- 
rock from the vicinity of Mount Picton, with specimens of mica- 
ceous schist and milky quartz from Port Davey. The receipt of a 
box containing thirty-four plants, indigenous to the district. of 
Swanport, from Dr. Storey; and the receipt of a case from Joseph 
Bonney, Esq., of Perth, containing eighteen choice plants, were 
reported. 
Mr. Milligan placed before the meeting an impression of the 
exterior of a flat valve of a fossil Pecten from the clay-rocks on the 
Brown’s River Road, near Mr. Cartwright’s, remarkable for its 
large size and perfect state of preservation; also a cast of the 
exterior of one valve of a Modiola, of great delicacy and beauty, 
from the same locality. 
Mr. Milligan presented a specimen of the Paper Nautilus (Argo- 
nautus Argo) of Tasmania, procured on the shores of Freycinet’s 
Peninsula; also some very elegant Dentalium-like forms (composed 
of very fine sand) with the animal, whose foot is surrounded with 
stiff cirrhi, slightly curved, and having a colour and lustre resem- 
bling that of pure gold. Like the true Dentalium, it is found on a 
bottom of mud and sand in D’Entrecasteaux Channel. 
The Secretary read the following extract from a note of the 
Lord Bishop of Tasmania:—“ I am not agriculturist enough to 
know whether there is any thing very new, or very wonderful, in 
my own little experience, of the reproductiveness of Mummy wheat. 
But it can do no harm to let you know the fact, that, when I was 
last in England, Lady Franklin gave me a single ear of wheat pro- 
duced from some taken by Sir Gardner Wilkinson from an Egyptian 
mummy, and sown in England, and that the grains of this one ear, 
dibbled out in my garden, have yielded eight hundred and seventy- 
two ears.—Believe me to remain, my dear Sir, faithfully yours, 
“PF, R. Tasmania.” 
The Secretary read an extract from a letter of James Arnold 
Wheeler, Ksq., A.P.M., Port Sorell, reporting the discovery of a 
seam of bituminous coal between the Mersey and the Don Rivers, 
