176 Pro ceedings , 



Prom the Geological Society of London : — 



Annual Reports from 1851 and 1852, together with Fasciculi of Proceedings of 

 the Society from April 1850 to July 1851. 



From the Eev. T. J. Ewing, of New Town: — 

 Observations on the Dialects of the West of England, by^Jamea Jennings. 

 Treatises on the Lancaslure Dialect, with Glossary. 



Ditto on the Yorkshire Dialect, ditto. 



Ditto on the Exmoor Language, ditto. 



From Henry Tonkin, Esq. ; a Roman CathoUc llissal, published at Antwerp 

 in 1614. 



From Mr. Thomas Moore, of New Norfolk, a series of Geological Specimens, 

 comprising Galena and associated minerals fi-om Laxey Bay, Isle of Man. Coking 

 Coal fi-om the Lancashire coal-field. Cannel Coal from Wigan, Lancaslure. 

 Black Bituminous Shale from Clifton, Bolton-le-Moors. Also impressions of 

 Plants, &e., enclosed in hard nodules of a tough clayey sandstone belonging to the 

 Coal Measures, intersected by EaUway Cuttings at Chfton, between Bolton and 

 Manchester — amongst them are species of Stigmaria, Lepidostrobus, Trigono- 

 carjaum, Calamites, Fecopteris, Neuropteris, &c. ; also from Mr. Moore a speci- 

 men of Bog-Oak from the " Red Moss," Bolton-le-Moors. 



From Mr. R. C. Wood, of Singapore, a large collection (20 species) of elegant 

 Corals obtained there. 



From Mr. Mac Naughtan, a sample of the Seam of Anthracite Coal recently 

 intersected at a depth of 56 feet in the experimental borings carried on at Spring 

 Bay, and which it is understood are now more than 100 feet down. 



From Mr. Phineas Moss, specimen of Cork cut into thin shces by the circular 

 saw for hat-making purposes. 



From Mr. G. Eraser, Colonial Treasurer, a Skin, of the Cladorhynclius pec- 

 toralis, "Banded StUt" of Gould, one of seven recently shot near Ralph's 

 Bay — a bird which, Mr. Eraser remarks, has been described by Gould as belonging 

 to the Southern and Western Coast of Austraha, and is not noticed as an inhabi- 

 tant or visitor of Tasmania. 



From Mr. Jeffery, of the Observatory, a Skin of the Black Cockatoo of Tas- 

 mania, Calyptorhynchus xanthonotus, GouiiD. 



A note read from Mr. W. H. Catlett, Secretary to the Australasian Botanical 

 and Horticultm'al Society of Sydney, sohciting an interchange of Specimens. 



A letter read from Mr. MitcheU, Secretary to the Zoological Society of London, 

 acknowledging the receipt of " Papers and Proceedings" of this Society. 



The Secretary reported that a " Ward's" case containing 51 plants, &c., has 

 been furnished to Mr. Swainson, together with a packet containing 30 varieties of 

 Seeds, on condition that the case is to be returned filled with indigenous plants of 

 New Zealand. 



The Secretary read a short paper by Alexander Cross, Esq., R.N., of Rochester, 

 on the pointed-nose shark of the Pacific, Oxyrhina gomphodon, of which the 

 formidable jaws, tail, and spine in the Museum were exhibited. 



