Proceedings. 271) 



Mr. Francis Cotton, of Ivelvedon, Swan Port, and Mr. Salier, of 

 Liverpool-street, Hobart Town, were ballotted for and duly elected. 

 The Rev. W. B. Clarke, M.A. F.G.S. of Sydney, and the Eev. Chas. 

 Pleydell N. Wilton, M.A., of Newcastle, N. S. W., both mem- 

 bers of the Tasiuanian Society, were proposed and admitted on 

 Rule xYiT. 



Dr. Henry Butler presented to the library of the Society, in the 

 name of the author, Mr. Field, of Isleworth, two volumes on Ana- 

 logical Philosophy. 



Mr. Phineas Moss presented a small volume on Taxidermy, with 

 manuscript notes. 



A fragment of compact blue limestone, obtained by one of the 

 Government Surveyors in the bed of the Florentine River, (a tributary 

 of the Derwent, on its western side, and nearly opposite to Marl- 

 borough), where it is said to occur over an extensive tract of country, 

 was sent to the meeting by His Excellency Sir W. Denison. 



Specimens of clay-ironstone and fossils, from the carboniferous 

 strata at St. Paul's Plains, were received from F. W. Stieglitz, Esq., 

 of Lewis Hill. 



Major Last laid on the table specimens of schistose clay, &c., 

 having beautiful impressions of Glossopieris Browfiiana, obtained at 

 "Nobby Island," near the mouth of. the Hunter River, New South 

 Wales, during the constaiction of the breakwater at Newcastle. 



G. T. W. B. Boyes, Esq., sent for the museum two old English 

 silver coins, respectively of the reigns of William the Conqueror and 

 of Edward the First. That of William the First belongs to a box 

 containing 6500 pieces or more, accidentally found by four little boys 

 playing marbles in a piece of pasture-land called " Old Litten," near 

 the manor-house of Beaworth, in Flampshire, on the property of Mr. 

 Dunn, of Aylresford, on Sunday, June 30, 1833. This box of treasure 

 was exposed and broken open by the wheel of a heavy waggon -cutting 

 deeply into the ground.* 



James Barnard, Esq., presented to the museum preparations of a 

 black snake, and of a lizard, of the colony; also autographs of the 

 poets Wordsworth, Southey, Moore, James Montgomery, and Joanna 

 Baillie, — of James, the novelist and historian ; Cooper, the American 

 novelist; Dr. Elliotson, Sir Charles Lyell, and M'Culloch, the political 

 economist. 



* lludiiig's AniKils (Ito. ) of the Coinage of Great Britain, vol. i. page 151. 



