384 Proceedings. 
Nelson, by Mr. Buhl, a German artist, resident here, was exhibited, which 
has been allowed by competent judges to possess considerable merit in 
colouring and in the management of a deep foreground, and to realize with 
remarkable fidelity the characteristic features of the trees and general 
conditions of the forest ground of Tasmania. This painting has been sold 
for £25, and is to be shipped immediately to England. 
The thanks of the Society were voted, as usual, for the various 
donations and for the papers read. 
Mr. Hone left the chair about half-past nine o’clock, and the members 
soon after withdrew. 
10ra Novemser, 1852.—Monthly meeting; the chair was occupied by 
Joseph Hone, Esq., senior Member of Council. 
W.T.N. Champ, Esq., elected a Fellow of the Society. 
The following -presentations to the Museum and Gardens announced: 
From J. Mitchell, Esq., of Sydney, late of the Commissariat here, a 
skeleton of the Porcupine Ant-eater (chidna setosa) of Tasmania,—the 
cranium of a Wallabee, with other bones,—also a packet of seeds of Aus- 
tralian Plants, comprising 38 species. 
From H. F. Anstey, Esq., M.L.C., a specimen of Australian Goshawk 
(Astur approximans), shot at Anstey Barton. 
From Alexander M‘Naughtan, Esq., a sample of washed nuggetty gold, 
obtained at Turon River, New South Wales. 
From Mr. Milligan, a specimen from California of gold minutely dis- 
seminated in half coherent rock, consisting of amorphous quartz with 
decomposed felspar finely divided; internally, the mass has a granular 
appearance, while the worn exterior has the aspect of gold nearly solid. 
On the table were specimens of washed gold from California, with 
small nuggetty gold of Tasmania for comparison. 
A note read from Chester Eardley-Wilmot, Esq., presenting a diminutive 
fish (not named) in spirits, found by Captain Harmsworth, of the Derwent, 
adherent to a nautilus, taken in crossing the Tropics. 
The Secretary read extracts from a note by R. C. Gunn, Esq., reporting 
the arrival at Launceston of a long series of Reeves’s Conchologia Iconica 
for the Society ; and remarking that a shrubby tree, belonging to a new 
genus of Diosmee, discovered by Mr. Milligan upon the banks of the 
Franklin River in 1842, has been described by Mr. Kippist under the name 
Acradenia Franklinee; and that a low-growing but showy-flowering Richea, 
discovered at; Mount Sorell, at Macquarie Harbour, in 1846, has been 
