320 Proceedings. 
From the Rev. T. J. Ewing, of New Town, was received Part 2 of 
Gould’s “ Icones Avium.” 
Henry Hopkins, Esq., presented in the name of the author, ‘ Southey 
on Wool.” 
From Henry Boase Tonkin, Esq., was received ‘‘ A Treatise on Primary 
Geology,” by H.S. Boase; and “ Transactions of the Geological Society 
of Cornwail,’’ vol. 4. 
A note was read from Alexander M‘Naughtan, Esq., presenting to the 
Museum two Leopard skins (set up by Mr. Propsting), and two Kaffre 
Karosses. 
From Marcus Aitkin, Esq., were received three copper coins and the 
eranium of a Wild Boar from India. 
A note from Mr. H. Hull, presenting, in the name of his father, George 
Hull, Esq., of Tolosa, specimens of auriferous rocks obtained at the 
Bendigo diggings, Victoria; comprising talcose slates, milky and trans- 
parent quartz greenish clay-slate intermixed and veined with quartz, and 
the same interspersed with gold, &c. 
From Mr. Hawkes was received a valuable collection of dried Spherice 
obtained at Franklin Village, and amongst them two specimens in which 
the stipes of the fungus had forced its way through the chrysalis; the 
sporule from which it sprung having apparently failed to germinate so 
early as is usual, and thus arrested the growth and destroyed the vitality 
of the insect at a later stage of transformation than ordinary. 
From Mr. E. Gresley; one mil-rea note of the Imperial or National 
Treasury of Brazil (inconvertible,) issued at a nominal value of one dollar, 
and now depreciated 50 per cent.; with three silver coins, one of Joannes 
V. of Portugal, date illegible,—one a shilling of Queen Ann, dated 1707, 
having on the Reverse side the shields of England, Scotland, Ireland, and 
France, separately, with a rose and plume of feathers alternately inter- 
vening, indicative of the Mines in the West of England and in Wales, 
from which the silver forming the coinage was then derived,—the third, a 
shilling of Geo. II., dated 1746, with the word Lima under the laureat 
head of the sovereign, which is said to distinguish the coins struck of silver 
captured by the privateers “‘ Prince Frederick” and ‘‘ Duke.” 
Mr. Propsting presented a stuffed specimen of the white-headed Stilt 
of Australia (Aimantopus leucocephalus.—Goutp), shot in April last at the 
South Arm. Although Gould gives it an extensive range, and quotes 
New South Wales, Western Australia, and South Australia as its habitat, 
nothing is said ofits having been met with in Tasmania: this is probably, 
therefore, the first instance on record of its appearance here, and it is 
worth remarking that the month referred to was one of heavy and continued 
rains, with a comparatively high temperature at the close of a warm sum- 
mer, assimilating the climate to that of a more northern latitude. 
