requests its representative to vote in favor of throwing open 

 the Museum on Sundays." 



Mr. T. Cloud, of Wallaroo Smelting "Works, produced a 

 number of specimens of wash-dirt from the Bingara diamond 

 field of ]S"ew South Wales, given him by Mr. A. Liversedge, 

 Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Sydney. 

 He stated that they were specimens of bed-rock, upon which 

 drift occurred. The drift was only a few feet in depth, and 

 was represented in different parts of the district by the 

 specimens laid on the table. The process of extracting seemed 

 to consist of putting the stuff in a machine to separate the 

 clay and small pebbles, and the diamonds were separated by 

 one of Huat's diamond machines. The gems, stones, &c, 

 accompanying the diamond were tourmaline, or jet stone, 

 occurring as rolled prisms ; zircon ; sapphire, generally in 

 small angular pieces, usually of a pale colour ; topaz, in 

 rounded fragments ; garnet, in small rough ill-formed crystals ; 

 spinelle, not common ; quartz, in small prisms ; brookite, very 

 rare ; titanif erous iron, common ; magnetic iron in small 

 prisms ; wood tin, rare ; gold and osmiridium, rare. The 

 diamonds were small, some clear, colourless, and transparent, 

 others a pale straw colour. One or two very small dark ones 

 were found, also some of a greenish hue. 



Mr. Cloud also produced a piece of atacamite found in the 

 flues of the Wallaroo Smelting Works. (See p. 80.) He also 

 showed a double sulphide of copper and iron crystallised, 

 corresponding in chemical constitution and crystalline cha- 

 racter with the natural product (Borell) which had been found 

 in the copper furnaces. 



The Eev. J. E. T. Woods' paper on " Australian Starfishes" 

 was taken as read. (See page 89.) 



Dr. J. E. Joyce read a paper on "Sunstroke," in which he 

 explained the various symptoms attending an attack, and 

 recommended several simple remedies, as well as precautionary 

 measures, such as avoidance of exposure to the sun, abstinence 

 from alcoholic liquors, and the use of a damp cloth in the hat 

 when working in the sun. 



Dr. S. J. Magarey mentioned the fact that decomposition 

 set in very rapidly in cases where death resulted from sun- 

 stroke. 



Professor Tate remarked that a confirmation of Dr. Magarey' s 

 statement existed in the fact that collectors, who frequently 

 killed animals by tying them in the sun with their heads 

 immovable, were compelled to remove the skins speedily, as 

 decomposition soon ensued. 



Mr. Ebe>~ezer Cooke, M.P., read a paper " On the Museums 

 in Australia and New Zealand," in Avhich he pointed out the 



