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of London, at the Anniversary Meeting held on 16th February, 1849. 

 Fasciculi of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, in 

 continuation from May to December, 1848, with the Report read at 

 the Annual Meeting held in April, 1849. Mr. Milligan presented a 

 publication of 1672, entitled the Practice of Physic, in seventeen 

 books, by 



Nicholas Culpepper, Physitian and Astrologer, 

 Abdiah Cole, Doctor of Physic, 

 William Rowland, Physitian ; 



chiefly a translation of the V/orks of Lazarus Riverius, Counsellor 

 and Physitian to the King of France, &c. 



Mr. M. Allport presented to the Museum a collection of eggs of 

 English birds ; also a box of eggs of birds of Tasmania, with a list of 

 names. 



His Excellency Sir W. Denison sent a specimen of the common 

 Hippocampus, and a very fine specimen of the more rare variety 

 named Phyllopteryx , by Swainson ; also a sample of bituminous coal 

 obtained by Mr. J. Scott, Surveyor, Launceston, at the Ben Lomond 

 Rivulet, on the western flank of Ben Lomond. 



Samples of plumbago (Graphite), obtained in the shaft lately 

 opened on the estate of Creekton, Norfolk Plains, the property of 

 Abraham Walker, Esq., in pursuit of the veins of Galena with copper, 

 occurring in the limestone and slate there, were presented from 

 Mr. Walker. 



The Secretary drew attention to an unusually large crab upon the 

 table — one of two said to have been taken recently by fishermen 

 on the East Coast. 



Mr. Milligan also placed upon the table a quantity of the red 

 balsamic exudation of the grass-tree ( Xanthorrhcea Australis) of 

 Tasmania from Bass' Straits; exhibited its highly combustible 

 qualities, and remarked that, from the very fragrant odour which it 

 yields, it may be found useful in the preparation of pastiles, frank- 

 incense, &c. — that it has been used to produce a nankin dye, and 

 thatit seems capable of being turned to account as the basis of a varnish. 

 Mr. M. also placed upon the table a cone of Banksia scrratifolia from 

 Rocky Cape, Bass' Straits, — the only locality in Van Diemen's Land 

 in which it is found ; it forms a picturesque but not lofty tree, 

 prevailing over an area of several miles along the coast upon a 

 lue.igre soil of sand with peat. 



