Troceedings. 



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13th Sepxembee, 1854. — Monthly meeting; J. W. Agnew, Esq., M.D., in the 

 .cliau'. 



The following gentlemen were after a ballot declared to be duly elected : — 

 Eev. H. J. D'Emden, of Hobart Town. 

 George Bisdee, Esq., of Wood Spring. 

 Edward Bisdee, Esq., M.L.C., of Lovely Banks. 

 George Morgan, Esq., of Hobart Town. 

 The Secretary announced the receipt of three Treatises upon Avistralian and 

 Tasmanian Plants from the author, Ferdinand Muller, M.D., Government 

 Botanist for Victoria; forwarded through Andrew Clarke, Esq., Surveyor- General 

 of that Province ; Statistics of Van Diemen's Land, 1844 to 1853, from James 

 Barnard, Esq., Government Printer. Also, from the Royal Society of London, 

 Fasciculus No. 3 of Vol. 7 of Proceedings of the Society. 



The Secretary laid before the meeting a letter from John Alexander Smith, Esq., 

 Honorary Secretary to the Auckland Musetim, with the annexed descriptive Ust of 

 a series of am'iferous minerals from the Kapimga Diggings, presented to the 

 Society. 



"List of Specimens sent from the Auchland Iluseiim, New Zealand, 8th July, 

 1854, to the Secretary of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, Hobart 

 Town. 



Box A, No. 1. 

 No. 1. — Nugget ; only four have been re- 

 ceived by me ; they were discovered in the 

 clay marked (B, No. 3) about 10 feet 

 below the sm-face. 

 No. 2. — What are termed here Nuggets ; 

 the largest yet found was about the size 

 of a hen's egg ; they are foimd in the bed 

 of the stream. 

 No. 3. — Gold in Quartz; also termed a 



Nugget here. 

 No. 4. — Gold Dust ; in sand procured from 

 washing earths, marked B, Nos. 1, 2, 3. 

 ,B, No. 1. — Specimen of gold-bearing fels- 

 :pathic quartz, fi-om Kapunga Diggings. 



B, No. 2. — Specimen of gold-bearing dark 

 yeUow clay, from Kapunga Diggings. 



* B, No. 3. — Specimen of gold-bearing white 

 clay, mixed with leaves and small fibres 

 of roots, &c., from Kapunga Diggings. 



C, 1 — 1 Specimen of Chalcedony from 

 Coromandel. 



GoLB Series, New Zealand. 

 From Coromandel Harbour, New 



Zealand. 

 From Uiou Diggings. 



From Uiou Diggings. 

 iDcen broken. 



From Uiou Diggings. 



This has 



* Gold Dust in u-on sand is foimd in all these earths by washing. 



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