1C8 Proceedings. 



By His Excellency Sii- W. T. Denison, the 10th and 11th Tri-monthly Eeports 

 of Mr. Stutchbury, the Government Geologist and Mineralogist of New South 

 Wales, -with coloured plans, &e. 



By His Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe, Esq., the Fu'st General Eeport of 

 Dr. Miiller, Government Botanist of Victoria, together with the First Eeport of 

 Mr. Sel'ft'yn, Government Geologist there. 



By Andrew Clarke, Esq., Sm-veyor- General of Victoria, Mr. Selwyn's Eeport on 

 the Coal Field at Cape Patterson, Victoria; also the First Mineralogical Eeport 

 on the Gold Fields, by Mr. Selwyn, with plans and sections. 



A letter was read from F. H. Henslowe, Esq., transmitting, by direction of the 

 Hon. E, Dry, Esq., Speaker of the Legislative Council, one volume containing the 

 Votes and Proceedings, and another the Acts, of the Legislature of Tasmania for 

 the Session of 1853. 



A letter was read from the Eev. D. Galer transmitting a small bible, one of a 

 consignment curiously mutilated by insects, though soldered up apparently with 

 the usual care in tin and enclosed ia a deal case — a board from which, half eaten 

 away on the inside, accompanied the book. Mr. Galer states that the case of booka 

 was sent out from England by the William Woolley, and that the cargo was 

 sent ashore at the Mauritius while the vessel underwent repair, from which it 

 would appear probable that the species of Termites, commonly known as the white 

 ant, had there gained a footing in the wood, and afterwards, through some acci- 

 dental apertm'e left in soldering up the tin, had found admission to the books, 

 disclosing, however, on the box being opened here, no trace of itself save by its 

 ravages. 



The Secretary reported the despatch of five cases of plants, indigenous to these 

 colonies, to London, in exchange for plants received or ordered. 



Mr. Clarke forwarded to the Museum a rich specimen of native sulphuret of 

 antimony, said to occur in granite near Heathcote, at the M'lvor Diggings, Vic- 

 toria; also a dried spike of a Liliaceous plant, from the Australian Alps, Gipps' 

 Land, wliich may probably prove to be a new species of the genus MilUganea, 

 lately foimded by Dr. Hooker, upon specimens collected on Movmt SoreU, and near 

 the Gordon Eiver, Macquarie Harbom*, by Mr. MiUigan, in 1846-7. 



From Eonald C. Gunn, Esq., were received two specimens of the handsome 

 SnaU-shell of Tasmania, Helix Launcestoniensis, discovered by that gentleman in 

 dense forests on the northern flank of the Ben Lomond range, and recently well 

 figm-ed by Eeeve in his Conchologia Iconica. 



Mr. Propsting presented the skin of the Diving Petrel, (Fufflnuria urinatrix, 

 Gould), drifted ashore near Muddy Plains. 



From Mr. Belette, of Pittwater, was received the skin of an Owl, {Strix casta- 

 nops, Gould), in good preservation. 



From Mr. Bland, of Melbourne, were also received for the Museum samples of 

 tin-ore from the Ovens Gold Field in the rough state, and as prepared for the 

 London market ; together with an ingot of the metal reduced from a portion of the 

 ore. Mr. Bland also sent a specimen of the consohdatcd beach at the Island of 



