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Mr. 8. Moses presented two good shells of a very pretty and not common 
species of Ricinula, said to have been obtained at Madagascar. 
Mr. Thomas Browne, of Macquarie-street, presented three nodules of 
pyrites of iron from Satellite Island, in D’Entrecasteux Channel, where 
they occur embedded in great number in blue argillaceous strata, the 
geological position of which is not determined. 
Mr. M‘Naughtan has presented to the Society’s Gardens a packet 
containing 110 varieties of seeds from the Cape of Good Hope. 
Captain Goldsmith presented a fine specimen of gold upon an indurated 
ferruginous clay, brought by himself from Central America, where it was 
obtained at an elevation of about 3000 feet, in 13° North. 
From Dr. Forbes, R.N., of New Zealand, was received, through the 
Hon. R. Dry, Esq., a box of geological specimens, chiefly from the Middle 
Islands of New Zealand; together with two spirit preparations of snakes 
from the Cape of Good Hope. The geological specimens represent the 
primary transition, carboniferous, tertiary (fossiliferous), and volcanic 
groups of rocks, and include several varieties of lignite and coal of an 
inferior description. The following list accompanied the specimens :— 
“ List of a small collection of Rocks and Fossils, chiefly from the 
Middle Island of New Zealand. 
No. 1. Coal from Preservation Harbour.—S. W. coast of New Zealand, 
associated rocks, trap, sandstone, shales, coarse quartzoze grit : 
no limestone or fossils yet found. 
. Mica schist with garnets.— Dusky Bay. 
. Granitic Gneiss with garnet. Breaksea Sound. 
. Granitic Rock with masses of hornblende. Ditto. 
. Ditto , ditto. Ditto. 
. Nephrite, Poluamoo of the natives. Milford Haven. 
. Serpentine passing into ditto. Ditto. 
. Lnmestone, carb. lime. associated with trap. Ditto. 
. Coal and associated rocks, Mapaeve Bay. A coarse granitic rock 
forms the axis of elevation, fossiliferous sandstones and lime- 
stones, grit and shales lay in contact with coal-seams, overlaid 
by a deposit of quartz gravel, pieces of which are found imbedded 
in the coal. 
— 10. Clay slate, forming nearly the whole of the south side of Cook’s 
Straits, traversed by veins of quartz. 
— 11. Serpentine erupted through the above. 
— 12. Silicified vegetable clay, from chalky limestone, south of 
Cape Campbell. 
— 13. Claystone porphyry, forming summit of Mount Pleasant, (1800 
feet.) Port Cooper. Banks’s Peninsula. 
— 14. Volcanic Tuff, laying between ranges of basaltic pillars. 
Port Cooper, Quail Island. 
— 15. Amygdaloidal Trap. Quail Island, with crystals of Mesole. 
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