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The Secretary placed on the table a specimen of coal from the seam 
lately intersected in the shaft sunk on Mr. Swan’s property at New 
Town; also specimens of a naturally formed tissue, having the ap- 
pearance of brown paper, obtained early in April last in the dried up bed 
of a rivulet in the dense forest, near St. Mary’s Pass, on the east coast of 
Tasmania. 
A note read from Ludwig Becker, Esq., M.D., transmitting for the 
Museum of the Royal Society specimens of fossil bones of various diminu- 
tive animals from the clay and lime in the middle tertiary formation 
obtained at Weisenau, in the vicinity of Mayence, with two teeth of the 
Equus primigenius—antidiluvian horse, from Yorkshire. 
The Secretary read a letter from Sir H. Ellis, Principal Librarian of the 
British Museum, acknowledging the receipt of articles transferred from the 
department of Tasmanian Contributions in the Exhibition of the Industry of 
all Nations to the National Museum. 
Report of receipts and despatch of plants, &c., at the Society’s Gardens, 
read. Received two cases per ‘“ Maggie,” from Canton, through A. 
M‘Naughtan, Esq., containing 50 plants, of which 32 were alive; also a 
box of seeds containing 60 species. One case per ‘‘ Lady Franklin,” from 
Norfolk Island, containing 400 pine plants; one box of valuable Cape 
bulbs from His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison, of which, though they 
appear to have been packed in July 1850, about 60 specimens of Amaryl- 
lids are likely to do well. - One box containing 34 species of Cape Bulbs 
from His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison, chiefly of Amaryllis, Watsonia, 
Babiana, Tritonia, Antholyza, Ixia, and Sparaxis. Despatched per 
“ Aurora,” to Sydney Botanic Gardens, one case containing 400 Norfolk 
Island pines. Per ‘“‘ Maggie,” to Canton, one case with 47. species of plants, 
and one case containing 45 specimens to J. Marjoribanks, ‘Esq. ; case to be 
returned with plants indigenous to China. Per ‘* Middleton,” to London, 
to Stephen Kennards, Esq., one case containing 29 native plants; the case 
to be returned with plants ordered. To Messrs. Lee, Hammersmith, one 
case containing 40 plants—Araucaria excelsa; three ditto—Araucaria 
Cunninghamii ; the case to be returned with fruit trees, as ordered. Per 
“ Flying Fish,” to Geelong, one case containing 42 plants, to J. Wallace, 
Esq. : 
The Secretary read a short paper by Mr. Graves, forwarded through 
Ronald C. Gunn, Esq., upon a marl bed opened and worked by Mr. 
Hodgson, near “ Black Charley’s Opening,” (Parson’s Pass), on the 
Richmond Road to Brushy Plains—its properties and presumed applica- 
bility to certain processes of woollen manufacture in the place of Fuller’s- 
earth. 
Mr. Milligan read a letter from Mr. Bennet, Secretary to the Linnean 
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