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the paper, apologises for not being able to make it more complete 

 than it is, on account of the difficulty of getting specimens from 

 different mines, but as far as possible he has sent specimens of the 

 rocks collected from over a large area, together with specimens of 

 ore deposits from certain mines. 



Professor Liversidge concluded by saying, "Mr. Marsh has been 

 good enough to present to the Society a few crystal models he has 

 cut from ripidolite. They are very well cut, and I think he de- 

 serves the thanks of the Society for these and for the specimens 

 he has also presented to us." 



The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. Marsh for his 

 paper, and the specimens illustrating it. 



The Chairman stated that Baron von Mueller had sent a con- 

 tinuation of his paper : — " Record of hitherto undescribed plants 

 from Arnheim's Land," in which five plants were described, dried 

 specimens of the same being laid upon the table for inspection ; 

 in order to expedite the publication of the paper it had been 

 already set up in type. 



Dr. John Fraser, read a paper on "Some Folk Songs and Myths 

 from Samoa," translated by Rev. T. Powell and Rev. G-. Pratt, 

 with introductions and notes written by himself. He made the 

 following prefatory remarks :— Mr. President, your predecessor, 

 in vacating the Chair in May last, devoted a paragraph in his 

 address to some words of sympathy with Australasian and 

 Polynesian research. I know there are some in this room now 

 who received these words of sympathy with pleasure, for it is not 

 often we get any notice from those high in authority. In our 

 schoolboy days we used to learn, in classic language, that " virtue 

 is its own reward," but I am not quite sure that that maxim is 

 altogether appreciated as a motive to research of this kind. Most 

 of us, in this community, like a little word of encouragement now 

 and then. It is very fortunate that our studies do not belong to 

 the bread-and-butter sciences. If our living depended upon them, 

 it would be but a scanty one. So any encouragement we receive 

 is all the more grateful to us. I consequence of the sympathy 

 shown in Professor Liversidge's address, I venture to offer you 

 this evening a few bits of song and tradition from Samoa. 



Some remarks upon the paper were made by the Rev. W. 

 Wyatt Gill, b.a., ll.d. 



Mr. H. C. Russell, b.a., c.m.g., f.r.s., exhibited and described 

 4 Some Star photographs recently taken at Sydney Observatory,' 

 the photographs were afterwards kindly presented to the Society: 



" A few weeks since I had the honour of bringing before the 

 members of our Society some photographs of the Milky- Way and 



