158 Proceedings. 
Mr. Henslowe presented a slab of slate sawn on the edges, of 
rather soft quality, which had been forwarded from Circular Head 
by Mr. Whitefoord, Police Magistrate there: the old transition 
clay-slates spread almost in one continuous field, as far as Cape 
Grim to the westward; while on the eastern side they extend, with 
little interruption, to Table Cape. They stand for the most part on 
edge along the coast, and they contain many beds of micaceous flag- 
stone, and of whet-slate or hone-stone, infinitely superior in quality to 
any of the specimens sent home to the Industrial Exhibition, and 
which have been so well spoken of. At Rocky Cape, on its eastern 
side, close to the water’s edge, some thick beds of dark metamor- 
phic (?) quartz intervene in the series. 
From Capt. Fallenstein was received a quantity of the seeds and 
of the unbleached fibre of Corchorus capsularis, a plant of the order 
Tiliaceae, from which a grass cloth is made in India. Some of the 
species are cultivated in comparatively cool climates, and it is 
thought this might thrive here, so as to become ultimately of eco- 
nomic value to the colony. 
There has been received at the Gardens a packet of seeds, con- , 
sisting of 100 species,—all of tropical character,—from the Botanic 
Gardens at the Mauritius. 
A case containing 24 varieties of grape plants has been forwarded 
to Norfolk Island, per Lady Franklin. 
The Rey. T. J. Ewing, of New Town, sent for presentation to the 
Museum a few specimens of crustacee from the coast of China. 
The Secretary laid on the table specimens of porphyry having a 
flinty aspect and character. It occurs ina series of low eminences 
along the side of a ridge of fossiliferous clays and grit near Oyster 
Cove, the central axis of which appears to be a semi-crystalline fel- 
spathic rock, running up through a fissure from D’Entrecasteaux 
Channel on one hand, to massive hills of greenstone on the other. 
The Secretary laid on the table a letter from the University of 
Edinburgh, acknowledging receipt of the first and second parts of 
the “ Papers and Proceedings” of the Society. 
The Secretary exhibited a series of drawings, carefully executed, 
by Mr. Becker, of a Cranium procured at the River Tambo, in 
Gipps’s Land, and sent over for inspection by Mr. R. C. Gunn, of 
Launceston. Mr. Gunn has forwarded the original to Professor 
Owen, of London, for examination. Drs. Officer, Agnew, M‘Carthy, 
