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by William Archer, Esq., junr., M.L.C., were exhibited to the meeting, 
and elicited general admiration. 
From Francis Stieglitz, Esq., of Lewis Hill, was received a rich speci- 
men of Hematitic iron ore, procured on the confines of the granitic tract of 
country near Capt. Hepburn’s estate, on St. Paul’s Plains. 
From Dr. Officer was received a box containing an extensive and 
valuable collection of specimens of rocks and minerals from South 
Australia. 
A varied assortment of bows and arrows, spears, spear-heads having 
brass points, and other fishing gear, with mocassins and gloves of tanned 
seal-skin, and articles of personal adornment, obtained to the north of 
the Aleutian Isles, from aborigines in a canoe, by a whaling vessel cruising 
in the seas near Behring’s Straits, were added to the collection. 
Mr. Milligan presented a “ waddie” and six hunting spears of the 
aborigines of Tasmania, measuring ten to fifteen feet in length, and made 
of a tall straight-grained Leptospermum ‘‘ tea-tree” of the colony. 
The Secretary read letters from Dr. Kenworthy, giving the details 
of a second very careful analysis of Fingal gold, whereby it appears that 
198 grains of the washed gold of that district yielded, of pure gold 173 
grains—of silver, 24 grains—quartz, &c., 1 grain; the mean of which, and 
Dr. Kenworthy’s first assay, would give 82:972 per cent. of pure gold, and 
about 92 per cent. of silver, or 3983 grains of gold with 46% of silver in the 
ounce, the value of which, at the Mint price, would amount to above 71s. 
per ounce. 
From 54 grains of Turon gold Dr. Kenworthy obtained 48 grains of pure 
gold, and 4% grains of silver, which is at the rate of 88-888 of gold, and 
8833 of silver per cent., and of 426°66 grains of gold and 40 grains of 
silver to the ounce, and would, at the Mint price, give a value to the Turon 
gold of 76s. 1d. per ounce; while the Mount Alexander gold, judging 
also from the assays made here, ought, at the Mint price, to realize more 
than 79s. per ounce. 
A Tabular Statement of the fall of rain at Cambock, Evandale, the resi- 
dence of Dr. Kenworthy, for each month during 1849-50 and 51, and first 
half of 1852, was laid before the meeting. 
The Secretary read the following paper, transmitted through His 
Excellency Sir W. T. Denison, President, by J. C. Bidwell, Esq., Com- 
missioner of Crown Lands in New South Wales, on the best mode of 
introducing the Salmon, Sturgeon, Herring, &c., into the rivers and seas of 
Tasmania. 
