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Tadornoides) was shot on the flat below my house: there were two, and the 
one shot was a female. 
*T think I told you that I possess in captivity a second Van Diemen’s Land 
species of Dromicta smaller than the D. nana (gliriformis of some authors.) It 
does not thrive so well as the larger species. I have had some in captivity for 
the last two or three years, but they have not bred. My living Thylacine is 
becoming tamer: it seems very far from being a vicious animal at its worst, and 
the name Tiger or Hyzna gives a most unjust idea of its fierceness. 
‘*T perceived in a series of capital papers on the natural productions of New 
South Wales, lately published, that a Cassowary had been shot by Mr. Kennedy’s 
party in one of the gullies near Cape York. ‘This is the first account of a 
Cassowary in New Holland I have seen. The specimen was lost, and it is 
yet therefore undescribed. 
‘“‘ Have you read W. B. Clarke's paper on the fact of gold and copper being 
found in quartz rocks when no indications of metals appeared to the eye, even 
when armed with a strong magnifier? It is curious and most interesting ?” 
The Secretary read two letters from Charles M‘Lachlan, Esq., 
of London, Tasmanian Agent for the Industrial Exhibition, from 
which it appears that the Derwent landed our quota on the 3lst 
March, almost at the latest moment at which they could be received. 
The manuscript list sent home per Derwent, through the Colonial- 
office, had been sent by Earl Grey to the Exhibition, and thence to 
be printed and incorporated in the great catalogue then in prepa- 
ration. 
10TH SepTemMBeER, 1851.—Robert Officer, Esq., a Vice-President, 
in the chair. 
A ballot for new members took place, when Mr. James Wood, of 
Hobart Town, was elected. 
As first in point of interest and importance at the present moment, 
the Secretary drew attention to several fine specimens of auriferous 
quartz, presented by Dr. Officer, and recently obtained near that 
gentleman’s station at Bunenyong, upon a spur of the Pyrenees, near 
the head of the Wimmera, in the province of Victoria. 
From Sir W. Denison was received an unusually fine specimen 
of copper ore, forwarded by Alfred Denison, Esq., per Emma. 
From the Rev. J. Garrett, on the West Tamar, were received fine 
specimens of Asbestos, in a series of stratified layers, traversing 
Serpentine from the base of the Asbestos Mountains on the eastern 
side: also specimens of fossil wood—one mineralized with iron, the 
other with silex. 
