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From Morton Allport, Esq., two drawers full of Tasmanian insects, 

 well preserved, were received ; many of them reared from the egg 

 by Mr. A. A fish, probably (Chironectes) undescribed, having a 

 remaitable elbow-joiut-like conformation of pectoral fins, was pre- 

 sented by Mr. Allport. 



C. C. Abbott, Esq., of the 18th Royal Irish, presented to the 

 Museum a handsome collection of heads and horns of the Antelope 

 and Deer tribes frequenting the rocky sides and summits of the lower 

 ranges of the Himmalay Mountains. 



P. S. Tomlins, Esq., forwarded to the meeting a spirit preparation 

 of a curious specimen of the Tunicata. The animal looks like a free 

 member of the genus Accidia on its proper surface ; but underneath, 

 and in the spaces between three leathery pendant flaps, there is on 

 one side loose Branchia;, and on the other, covered by a soft mem- 

 brane, a thin and pellucid shield-like shell. It will probably be found 

 to be a link between this class of animals and the conchiferous 3Tol-. 

 liiscce. The specimen was procured by Mr. Tomlins on the sea-beach 

 at South Port. 



H. Hull, Esq., placed on the table some fragments of granite, 

 compact quartz, quartz rock veined with iron, recently collected by 

 him on Ben Lomond ; also specimens of the fresh-water muscle U7iio, 

 from the South Esk ; and a good specimen of a hermit or soldier 

 crab, in his usurped shell — a Fasciolaria. 



Mr. Milligan placed on the table spirit preparations of the dia- 

 mond snake and whip snake of the colony — the former taken at 

 Circular Head, the latter on Flinder's Island ; also specimens of the 

 egg of a member of the shark tribe, known as " Sea Purses :" on 

 examination, one was quite fresh, the yolk and white being distinct, 

 without appearance of vivification. They were taken by a lisher- 

 man, according to his own account, from a short squat fish, which he 

 calls a '' Nurse," and which he says was afterwards thrown into the 

 water. 



On the table lay a fine specimen of Sagus Ruffia in fruit, and the 

 large seed vessel of the Lodoicea Sechellarum. 



Dr. Crooke presented in a phial, from Mr. Weston of Adelaide, a 

 sample of washed gold-dust from the Onkaparinga district. South 

 Australia. 



The Secretary reported having forwarded to the Museum at Syd- 

 ney a quantity of skins of birds of Tasmania — that the Horticultural 

 Society of London had acknowledged a large assortment of indige- 



