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1278 May, 1852.—Monthly meeting; Robert Officer, Esq., a Vice- 
President, in the chair. 
The following gentlemen were ballotted for and elected Fellows:—The 
Hon. H. §. Chapman, Esq., Colonial Secretary, Deputy. Inspector-General, 
Arch. Shanks, Esq., M.D., Principal Medical Officer, and John Atkinson, 
Esq., of Ilarvo, near Launceston. 
The Hon. Colonel Butterworth, C.B., Governor of the Incorporated 
Settlements of Prince of Wales’s Island, Singapore, Malacca, &c., was 
elected an Honorary Member of the Society. . 
The following presentations were made:—From Messrs. Orger and 
Meryon, of London, the London Catalogue, &c., of Books published in 
Great Britain from 1814 to 1846. From James Grant, Esq., of Tulloch- 
gorum, Report on the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales and 
Van Diemen’s Land, by Commissioner Bigge; printed by order of the 
House of Commons, in 1823. From the New Zealand Society a printed 
copy of their Rules. From the Linnean Society of London, a Fasciculus 
of their Proceedings in continuation to January 1851. 
The Secretary read letters from the Geological Society of London, 
acknowledging the receipt of the 1st vol. of ‘“‘ Papers and Proceedings” of 
this Society, and also of mineralogical specimens forwarded through the 
' Industrial Exhibition. 
A letter read from the New Zealand Society requesting a copy of this 
Society’s ‘‘ Papers and Proceedings.” 
A letter was read from John M. Young, Esq., of Liverpool-street, 
presenting to the Society two shells of a tortoise peculiar to New South 
Wales, (Chelonia Novee Hollandic), together with four of its eggs, obtained 
on the margin of a waterhole about the source of the Wimmera, at the foot 
of the Grampian Hills, Port Phillip. 
The following note from J. R. Kenworthy, Esq., was read by the 
Secretary, giving the details ofa careful analysis of two samples of gold 
from Mount Alexander and Fingal, by which it appears that the former 
yielded about 93 per cent. of pure gold, while the latter only gave 79 of the 
precious metal in a state of purity. 
“ Cambock, 7th May, 1852. 
“ My pear Sir,—In consequence of a report reaching me to the effect 
that some of the Fingal gold had realized a price in Hobart Town some 
6s. an ounce above that obtained at Mount Alexander, I was induced to 
analyze a portion obtained by Archdeacon Dayies on the spot, and which 
was presented to me by that gentleman. I had, however, previously 
resolved in my own mind to make the examination, arising from the 
peculiar green tint which the Fingal gold presents to the eye, and which 
is altogether wanting in the Mount Alexander gold,—the latter being of 
that beautiful rich yellow colour so characteristic of gold in its pure state. 
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