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From Mr. Skelton Emmett, of Circular Head, specimens of white 
compact quartz, and of quartz containing won pyrites, obtained on 
the ‘‘ Black River” there, and derived apparently from the transition 
clay-slates existing in that quarter. 
From Dr. Agnew, a Dyak Gun, with halberd-pointed bayonet 
affixed, for shooting poisoned arrows; also a quiver-full of small 
light arrows, needle-pointed at the apex, and funnel-shaped at the 
opposite end. It is said that these arrows are projected by blowing 
them with the mouth in the face and eyes of an enemy, just before 
coming to close quarters; and that when a thick cloud of these 
delicate and noxious missiles is thus adroitly fired off, it lends 
great effect to the charge which follows. Dr. Agnew also placed 
on the table a dishful of the Ourali or Ourari poison, from the 
West Indies. 
Mr. John Abbott submitted specimens of carboniferous sand- 
stone and shale, with vegetable impressions, from his coal shaft at 
Long Bay. 
Mr. Milligan laid on the table a specimen of highly bituminous 
coal, occurring in thin irregular layers in the hard sandstone 
between the upper and lower beds at the Douglas River Coal 
Company’s Works: the space from the upper to the lower coal 
seam there, and which is full 5 feet thick and of the finest quality, 
is about 73 feet. Mr. Milligan also presented several specimens of 
auriferous clay and conglomerate obtained from Ballarat. 
The Secretary reported receipt of a valuable paper by R. C. 
Gunn, Esq., on the mammals of the colony. 
Nuggets of pure gold, varying from one and a half to three and 
a half ounces in weight, were submitted by Dr. Lillie and Mr. 
Milligan. Mr. 8. Moses exhibited a handsome bracelet manu- 
factured of small nuggets, of their original size and shape, from 
the Turon diggings. 
The Secretary read extracts of a letter from Mr. Lyon, of 
Wellington, New Zealand, to Mr. Hort, of this city, promising 
tertiary fossils and specimens of the Apteryx, &c., for the Museum. 
The Secretary reported that the Superintendent at the Gardens 
had despatched per Isabella, to Mr. G. Hensen, at Auckland, New 
Zealand, a case containing forty-three species of plants, to be 
returned with plants indigenous to that country; that a case of 
choice plants had been received from Mr. Bonney, of Perth; and 
