270 Proceedings. 



The Secretary reported that Dr. Piigh, of Launceston, has for- 

 warded his Meteorological Tables for 1849, to be published in the 

 journal of the Society ; that a book on " the Earth's Antiquity" has 

 been received from the Dean of Westminster, through J. E. Bicheuo, 

 Esq. ; that Sir William Denison has sent to the Society's Gardens a 

 case containing Para Grass, forwarded from the Botanic Gardens at 

 Kew by Sir William Hooker : and that a box of ores of copper, from 

 the Burra Burra mines, has been presented by Sir William Denison 

 to the Museum. A collection of prepared skins of birds of Tasmania 

 was received from Miss Denison. 



Mr. Bicheno sent for examination a fragment of freestone from the 

 High School, having a pale blue colour, which it is said to have 

 acquired from contact with the timber of the Huon pine. 



Mr. Phineas Moss presented a few insects collected by himself 

 at South Australia. 



Mr. Mort, of Sydney, has forwarded to the Society's Gardens a 

 case of valuable exotics, besides plants indigenous to Australia. 



Mr. MackinnoUj of Selma, on the South Esk, presented for the 

 Museum a relic of the celebrated Flora Macdonald. 



From Mr. A. B. Jones and Mr. Philip Stanley Tomlins were 

 received for examination curious thin saucer-like forms recently found 

 on the sea-beach at the Retreat and South Port respectively : they 

 seemed to be formed of sand mingled with the roe of fish, and 

 fixed in the cake-like shape they possess by the glutinous matter 

 involving the ova. 



Mr. Sharland, M.L.C., sent for examination fragments of an 

 ohsidian-lodkmg mineral from his estate north of Plamilton, where it 

 is said to occur in considerable abundance, and massive: it will pro- 

 bably prove a variety of wood opal. 



Mr. Douglas, of the Ordnance, presented mineral specimens col- 

 lected in Kerguelen's Land by the oiEcers of the Erebus and Terror, 

 with some sea shells. 



Mrs. J. Kerr, of Fitzroy Crescent, sent a small collection of coins 

 for the Museum. Mr. H. Hull presented two specimens of fossil 

 wood from the Old Beach, where it is said to be plentiful on the 

 surface of the ground. 



Mr. Lievesley presented for the Museum a dried fish (not named) 

 from Honolulu, at one of the Sandwich Islands, together with a 

 packet of seeds of a plant met with in the neighbourhood of San 

 Francisco. 



