336 Proceedings. 
The following presentations to the Library were announced :—Catalogue 
of Books belonging to the Royal Geographical Society of London, from 
that Society, through His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison. The “ Gold- 
digger’s Magazine,” No. 2, from Mr. J. Bonwick, of Melbourne ; and the 
last 10 Parts of the Parliamentary Gazetteer, from Dr. Moore, of New 
Norfolk. 
The following donations were made to the Museum :—From the Hon. 
Colonel Butterworth, two samples of Gutta Percha, in the form of thin 
cloth or paper,—coarse and fine; the former resembling common brown 
paper, manufactured by a Chinese artist at Singapore—the latter in quality 
like fine linen, made in England, and both admirably adapted for 
waterproof wrapping, linings, &. From A. B. Jones, Esq., a beautiful 
specimen, cast ashore at Sandy Bay, of the Butterfly Gurnard of Tasmanian 
Seas (Trigla polyommata), figured by Richardson, from specimens sent 
home by the late Mr. Lempriere. From Arthur Smith, Esq., a fine piece 
of opalized wood (the so-called Banksia), from the vicinity of Ross. From 
W. T.N. Champ, Esq., a bundle of barbed spears made of hardwood, and 
of light arrows of cane and bamboo, said to have been obtained at New 
Guinea. From Captain Addison, of High-street, spirit preparations of the 
following :—3 Flying Fishes, Hxocetus volitans ; 2 Sucking Fishes, Hcheneis 
remora? Scolopendra, &c. &e. Also the jaws, tail, and back-bone (im- 
perfect) of a shark caught in the tropical Pacific, which, when taken, 
measured eighteen feet in length. Also a pair of horns of the common 
Antelope of India, Antilopa cervicapra. Also upwards of sixty Hindoo 
coins, said to have been found in excavating a foundation upon a mound 
near the Ganges, about 250 miles beyond Calcutta; the place having been 
some centuries under water. 
Mr. Milligan added to the collection the following specimens :—the 
pretty parasitic morel-fungus, Cyttaria Gunnii, abounding on the Tasma- 
nian myrtle-tree, Fagus Cunninghamii, in the dense umbrageous forests 
to the westward in early summer, and which was freely eaten by the 
Aborigines in their wild state. (It is curious to remark that similar fungz 
occur plentifully on the Antarctic Beeches, which form the dank illimitable 
forests of Tierra del Fuego, and that there also they constitute an important 
article of food for the barbarous natives; and it is deserving of notice that 
here, in the glens and ravines near the summits of a few of the high moun- 
tains between Lake St. Clair and Macquarie Harbour, a beech-tree (Fagus 
Gunnii— Hooker) has been found very closely resembling Fagus Antarctica, 
of the gloomy and humid forests of the southern extremity of America.)— 
Mr. Darwin observes, ‘‘ I found a second species on another species of 
beech (probably /. obliqua) in Chile.” A Cyttaria was also found upon the 
Fagus Gunnii at Macquarie Harbour by Mr. Milligan in 1847: it appears 
