XX. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



and reverse sides. Quartz shewing incrustation in progress of 

 original crystals. Silver — siderite and calcite. Native silver — 

 antimony, calcite, siderite. Native silver in altered rock. Native 

 silver from a nugget of 32 lbs, probably solid. Amphibolite, bore 

 cores. Calcite, crystals of Dyscrasite. Cinnabar, Sromeyerite, 

 Siderite, changing to Limonite. Crystals of Willyamite. Dyscrasite 

 crystals. Dyscrasite with splash of Pyrargite, Lode matrix. 

 Galena with siderite. Galena with calcite and siderite. Niccolite 

 etc. Pyrargyrite, calcite and siderite. Schist bore cores. Smaltite, 

 Niccolite, Siderite. Smaltite shewing Siderite and Calcite, matrix. 

 Stalactite from well water, Olive Downs. Stephanite crystals. 

 Photographs (23) of the Mining School, University of Sydney. 



Maiden, J. H., Director of the Botanic Gardens — An early- 

 addition of Gerarde's celebrated Herbal (1636). Australian Sea- 

 weeds collected and named by Professor W. H. Harvey of Dublin 

 in 1856 to illustrate his celebrated work Phycologia australasica 

 (one of six vols.) Botany of Captain Cook's First Voyage 1768 - 

 1771. The copper plates engraved 1772 - 1779 but not published 

 until 1900 [Lent by the Director of the Botanic Gardens]. Elive's 

 Monograph of the genus Lilium. Hooker's Rhododendrons. 

 Roscoe's Monandrian Plants. Letter dated .1789 from Sir J. E. 

 Smith, Botanist, the owner of the Linnean Herbarium and 

 describer of many of the earliest Port Jackson plants. Photo- 

 graphs— (1) Paddy "field" Ceylon; (2) Ditto, The Harvest; (3) 

 Ditto, On the sides of steep hills : shewing the way in which the 

 experience of centuries is brought to bear in so arranging the 

 patches that they may oppose least resistance to heavy rains. 



Pittman, E. F., a.r.s.m., Government Geologist — Enlarged 

 Photographs (14) framed, chiefly Australian Rocks and views in 

 the far West. 



Quaife, F.H., m.a., m.d. — Spectroscopic apparatus. 



Royal Society of New South Wales— Photographs (framed) 

 of illuminated addresses to Her late Majesty Queen Yictoria and 

 His present Majesty King Edward VII. 



