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PROCEEDINGS. 139 
The following exhibits were shown :— 
Professor poe pik F.R.S., exhibited hang of caren from 
river grave t Berrima, together with o ra S 
from the old old workings nea hy Bra where gems had 
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member’s question, he stated that some of the diamonds, though 
small, were worth sine and remarked at the same time that 
wherever valuable gems were found there was always a good 
deal of rubbish as well, so that the discovery of so many sm 
ones in .S.W. should not discourage miners. The Professor 
see if they contained those signs of sponges which appeared in the 
chalk flints. 
Remarks were made by Messrs. H. E. Kater and C. 8. 
Wilkinson. 
2. Mr. C. S. Winxrnson, F.G.S., exhibited a large specimen of 
darbonats of lead, containing chloride of silver, from the Christ- 
mas mine, near Silverton nm; a specimen of tin ore in micaceous 
granite from Hodgson and March’s lode, near Poolamacca, Barrier 
Ranges ; a sample of gold-bearing quartz from the Red Jacket 
reefs, near Silverton ; a specimen of lode-stuff containing argenti- 
ferous galena from Thackeringa ; a fine specimen of native anti- 
mony in calcite, found by Mr. Newman in the New Reform mine 
Lucknow ; also, from the same mine, a : pana of dendritic gold 
and arsenical pyrites in massive serpentine 
e Hon. Prof. Surru, C.M.G., exhibited a Hughes’ Induc- 
tion iin and Sonometer. , 
Mr. Cuaries Moore announced the discovery of a new species 
of the giant Australian lily on the high grounds between the 
ago, 2 
said, only one species was known ; but about that time another 
was discovered in Queensland, and now, strange to say, a third 
been found—strange because so large a flower had escaped notice 
before in a populated district. The flower-stem was 9 or 10 feet. 
igh, and the species was quite distinct from the other two. He 
ne stems of the three species to submit to the Society at its next. 
eeting, when he hoped to be able to read some notes upon them 
whi he had been prevented from doing that night by official 
About thirty-five members were present. 
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