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Mr. Boiiuey, of Perth, forwarded to the Society's Gardens a parcel 

 of seeds from South Australia. 



Mr. Lewis, of Collins-street, presented specimens of rocks and 

 minerals brought by him from the Burra Burra and other mines at 

 South Australia. 



Specimens of rocks and minerals collected in South Australia and 

 New Zealand, by Mr. Khodda, were presented. 



Specimens of the delicate Janthina fragilis, picked up by Mr. 

 Calder at Eagle Hawk Neck, were presented. 



A specimen of soft micaceous grit, from Break-o-'day Plains, for- 

 warded by F. L. Stieglitz, Esq., submitted for examination. 



Mr. John Abbott placed upon the table a sample of Iron Sand 

 from Long Bay. 



Mr. Milligan submitted a portion of the compact part of a long 

 bone imperfectly mineralized, but without process or articular surface, 

 from which to deduce its probable origin or connections ; it is said 

 to have been found on one of the Hunter Islands, in Bass's Straits : 

 the structure of the bone is almost as dense as that of ivory. 



Mr. Milligan also submitted fragments of the timber o^ Eucalyptus 

 globulus, blue gum, and of plank of the wood of Acacia melanoxylon, 

 the lightwood, and more correctly blackwood of the colonists, pei'- 

 forated through and through by the Teredo navalis — both specimens 

 from D'Entrecasteaux Channel: the first from the interval between 

 high and low water on the shore ; the last from the bottom of a large 

 boat some years used on the river. Considered desirable to be ascer- 

 tained whether the Huon pine or other of our colonial timbers suffer 

 in the same way. 



Mr. Milligan also submitted two species of Syngnathus, both appa- 

 rently distinct from those already in the Society's Museum. 



A sample of coal from the Lagoon Rivulet, about five miles from 

 Wabbs' Harbour, on the east coast, where the seam crops out 6^ feet 

 in thickness, and of a highly bituminous caking'quality, lay upon the 

 table. This coal has been found by experiment to yield a good coke. 

 In the upper portion of the Lagoon Rivulet, an upthrow has exposed 

 a long series of seams of coal, shale, and clay-ironstone, with thin beds 

 of sand-stone, containing impressions of ferns and strap-shaped 

 leaves, &c. 



Mr. H. Hull presented a copy of Lindley's Elements of Botany. 



Tables compiled by order of His Excellency the Lieutenant- 

 Governor, exhibiting the comparative stature and weight of children 



