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Proceedings. 



From the cliscorery o£ America (1492) to 1600 — 108 years. 

 From 1600 to 1700 ... 



f America ... 



From 1700 to 1800 



From 1801 to 1850 



From 1851 to 1860 



From 1861 to 1867 



( Africa, Russia , 



( America 

 ^ Russia 



50 years 



imerica, excluding Califoruia, aay . 



) California 

 i Australia 

 ( Riissia 



10 years 



/ CaUiOruia and British Columbia 



J Austraha 



J Rest of America and Russia, say 



(. I>]"ew Zealand ... 



Total Amount, Iflfjl to 1867. 



Russian Dominions ... 



Europe (Austria) 



Southern Asia (East Indies) . . . 



Africa 



South America 



United States 



British Columbia 



Australia ... 



New Zealand, to July, 1868 ... 



oz. 



41,000,000 



80,000,000 



100,000,000 



27,000,000 



248,000,000 



60,000,000 

 30,000,000 



90;000,000 



7,000,000 

 23,000,000 

 25,000,000 



7,000,000 



62,000,000 



11,200,000 



13,300,000 



8,400,000 



3,500,000 



36,400,000 



33,734,000 



3,271,000 

 11,300,000 



2,436,000 

 26,136,900 

 52,400,000 



1,440,000 

 39,183,000 



3,906,500* 



^'f 



173,806,500 



Thus the Averas-e Annual Yield of Gold has been for the — 



17th century ... ... ... 800,000 



18th „ ... ... ... • 1,270,000 



1801 to 1850 ... ... ... 1,800,000 



1851 to 1860 ... ... ... 6,200,000 



1861 to 1867 (including K'ew Zealand to 



date) ... ... ... ... 5,002,000 



In reporting some of tlie most interesting results of" tlie la.bonrs of tlie 



Geological Department since last meeting, Dr. Hector said that there liad 



been upwards of five hundred analyses made in the laboratory, and the 



results of each had been entered in a book, which was open for inspection by 



members. The principal analyses recently made were of samples from the 



large deposits of brown coal which had been found in Southland. This coal 



occurred in seams of great thickness, being in some places oyer thirty-five 



feet thick ; and though it was inferior in quality to the coal on the "West 



Coast, it vf ould no doubt prove of great local value, and perhaps be extensively 



* The total yield of gold in E"ew Zealand from 30th April, 1857, to 31st December, 

 1874, was 7,599,973 ounces, valued at £29,577,016.— Ed. 



