ia ale aed ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 
In the same year (1849) Mr. Clarke contributed several articles 
to the Herald on California and gold-mining, describing also the 
method of crushing and amalgamating auriferous quartz, and com 
cluding: “The particulars will, it is hoped, afford information to 
persons in this Colony who are anxious to work auriferous quart, 
or any other gold ore.” In 1849, also, he wrote to Sir R. Murchison 
on the subject of the progress of the Colony in mining matters, and — 
in that letter the following passage occurs—‘“ This Colony is becom- 
ing a mining country as well as South Australia. Copper, lead, 
and gold are in considerable abundance in the schists and quartzites | 
of the Cordillera. Vast numbers of the population are going to 
California, but some day I think we shall have to recall them.” a 
In a paper read before the Geological Society of London on 
May 4, 1852, Sir R. Murchison announced a geological discovery 
_ communicated to him by the Rev. W. B. Clarke, namely, “ the 
existence of many fossils of known Silurian species, and many 
shells and corals, on the flanks of the Dividing Range in New 
South Wales. This discovery is important, because it completes 
the resemblance of the Australian Cordillera to the Ural Mountains, 
the two chains being thus shown to be slaps mentd as well as — 
logically similar, and both to possess tl ants.” 
. The position to be accorded to the Rev. W. B. Clarke in 
discovery of gold is fairly stated by Professor Geikie in his “ 
of Murchison.” Count Strzelecki appears to have been 
first to ascertain the actual existence of gold in Australia ; * 
kept secret. The first explorer who proclaimed the proba! 
auriferous riches of Australia, on true scientific grounds, that 1% 
by obtaining gold. in situ, and tracing its parent rocks throug 
the country, was the Rev. W. B. Clarke, M.A., eign 
: __sniginaly a clergyman in England, bas spent a long and sh . 
ol 4 gr ea PR Be adopted co it 
| He folund gold in 1841, and exhibited it to numerous Members 
cas the Legislature, declaring, at the same time, his git i: 
