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characters used to express fifty-foxu- different oriental and other languages, &c.^ 

 ancient and modern. 



From Dr. Knight, of Auckland, New Zealand, through His Excellency Sir "Wm* 

 T. Denison, — Named Specimens of forty-two species of Mosses of New Zealand. 



The Secretary read Dr. Knight's letter, in which further contributions are pro- 

 mised and exchanges solicited with the Society and individual members. 



]?rom ]\Iiss Denison was received two fine specimens of Vohdafusiformis, one 

 of ihe most elegant and showy of Tasmanian shells. 



Mr. Moses presented two good specimens of Nautilus Pompilius. 

 From the Eev. Mr. Tanner, of Port Phillip, was received (thi-ough Mr. Walch) 

 a packet containing about twenty species of seeds of Australian plants, collected 

 by him at and near Wide Bay, New South Wales. 



The Secretary read a note from Mr. Thomas Moore intimating his intention 

 of making a collection of specimens of the coal and associated beds in the Lanca- 

 shire coal-fields, England, for the Eoyal Society's Museum, ia order to institute 

 exact comparisons with the products of equivalent strata in this colony. 



Mr. Milligan also read a note from Sir William Denison transmitting a Hst of 

 Tasmanian and Aiistrahan plants asked for in the way of exchange by Messrs. 

 Yeitch, of Chelsea. 



Mr. Tapfield, of Macquarie-street, presented a few fine specunens of agate, cut 

 and polished, and said to be from Germany. 



From Mr. WiUiam Lyons was received a lizard, in spirits, resembling Cyclodus 

 CasuarincB, obtained by him on the side of the road to Mount Wellington, by the 

 Springs, about a mile beyond the Cascades. 



Mr, Propstiag presented a stuffed specimen of one of the smaller species of the 

 Napu section of the MoscMdoe, or Musk-deer tribe, which was brought from India 

 by Major Coombe. 



From Mr. Belbin was received the skia of the elegant Australian Honey-eater, 

 JEntomyza cyanotis, shot by him at Port Phillip. 



Mr. Gr. A. Makeig submitted for examination a sample of arenaceous clay fi-om 

 his farm near the " Flower Pot," D'Entrecasteaux's Channel, colom-ed with the 

 minute green frmgvis which has so often led to a supposition of the existence of 

 copper in our clay formations. 



From Capt. M. L. Smith was received a hand specimen of a calcareous stratum 

 deposited on granite. The Secretary remai-ked that upon Flinder's Island, and some 

 of the neighbouring islands, this bed of chalk is foimd of a thickness varying fi'om 

 a few inches to many feet ; in some places a few feet only above the level of the 

 s ea, — while in others it occurs (stiQ, however, only as a crust over granite) at an 

 elevation of three or four hundred feet: and besides being met with on the Islands, 

 that it exists also at Cape Grim and at other points along the coast, passing occa- 

 sionally into a coherent and rather hard marl, and into a marly breccia, and that it 

 may be presiuned to have been deposited immediately before the last considerable 

 upheaval of these islands. 



