Proceedings. 2G9 



fisB : — " It was found in the sea at Port Arthur by a person who was 

 with me, and when caught had all the appearance of having four 

 legs, from the position and shape of the fins; the two longest of 

 which, from the sort of elbow in them, and the division into (rays> 

 what resemble fingers, seem to form a connecling link between fins 

 and legs or arms." 



Of the crustaceans Mr. Champ says:— "If they should turn out 

 to be young lobsters the fact is worth knowing, quantities of theiu 

 having within these few days been found in Opossum Bay, at Port 

 Arthur." 



Mr. Hull presented specimens of fossil shells from the spiriferovs 

 Limestone cropping out at Tolosa, of the common Helix, or large 

 existing snail shell of Tasmania, the cranium of the Echidna setosa 

 — a dried specimen of Callorynclms Australis, and a spirit preparation 

 of a large Tasmanian Lizard, closely resembling that figured by 

 Darwin (Zool. of the Beagle, vol. iii., plate xv.) as Cyclodus 

 Casuarince, and said by him to resemble the snakes in its mode of 

 progression : there is an opinion commonly prevalent in Van Diemeu'5 

 Land, and it obtained also amongst the Aborigines of the Island, 

 that this Lizard is venomous. 



From Mr. Propsting, of Elizabeth-street, was received a fine stufi"ed 

 specimen of the Australian Goshawk. {Astur Approxivians, Vig-. 

 and Horsf.) 



Mr. Millrgan read a paper illustrated with an ample series of 

 specimens, upon the occurrence of Galena, with traces of copper ia 

 the old siliceous limestone, for some years quarried and burned foi? 

 lime upon the property of Mr. Abraham Walker, at the western side 

 of Norfolk Plains, and immediately under Dry's Bluff, a portion of 

 the western range of mountains. 



Thanks were voted for the donations and paper, and the meetings 

 after some discussion, broke up. 



13iH February. — Monthly evening meeting, Joseph Hone, Esq., 

 in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were ballotted for, and duly elected 

 Fellows of the Society :— Gother Mann, Esq., of Sydney ; Thomas 

 Arnold, Esq., Inspector of Schools ; D.A.G.G. Mitchell, J. Boyd, 

 Esq., F. C. Tribe, Esq., J. C. Jervis, Esq., of Hobart Town. T. J: 

 Lempriere, Esq., A.C.G., was admitled upon Rule xviu 



