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parts of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of 
London. 
Sir William Denison presented one 4to volume sent out by the 
British Government, ‘“ Observations on Days of Unusual Magnetie 
Disturbance made at the British Colonial Observatories.” 
From Messrs. Orger and Meryon, of London, was received the 
Second Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons 
on Public Libraries. 
Mr. Milligan read a note from the Secretary of the Linnean 
Society of London, presenting copies of the Charter and Rules and. 
of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, and promising further 
contributions. 
From Mrs. Garrett, of Macquarie-street, was received a stuffed 
penguin, (Pygoscelis Papua), from the high south latitude 76° 36’, 
and longitude 174° west. 
Mr. H. Hull presented specimens of iron pyrites from the coal 
shaft near Newlands, consisting of a congeries of small cubes, with 
black shale. 
Mr. Tribe presented a box of objects mounted for microscopic 
examination. 
Mr. E. Tooth, of Bagdad, placed on the table for inspection a 
nugget of gold brought by him from the Ophir diggings, weighing 
thirteen ounces. Mr. Tooth also presented to the Museum several 
samples of auriferous quartz, fragments of quartz with gold, and 
one beautiful specimen of gold crystallized in a drusy cavity of 
semi-transparent quartz. 
Mr. Francis Butler presented from Luttrell’s farm, at the Black 
Brush, fragments of iron glance ore and of metamorphic sandstone, 
compacted and rendered crystalline from contact with trap rock. 
Mr. Phineas Moss presented a fragment of linen cloth taken from 
a mummy opened at Bath, in England, a few years ago. 
From Mr. A. M. Milligan, of Launceston, was received a spirit 
preparation of the common black and whip snakes of the Colony. 
The Secretary placed upon the table communications from the 
principal Librarian of the British Museum, and from the Royal 
College of Physicians of Edinburgh, acknowledging the second 
part of the “ Papers and Proceedings” of the Society. 
A note from Mr. Cartwright to Mr. Hull was read, promising to 
send to the Museum samples (as soon as landed) of teas mixed 
