PROCEEDINGS . 277 



10. Forest Department (J. Ednie Brown, f.l.s., Director.) — 

 "Samples of silk Cocoon, reared by Mr. Thorn of Castle Hill ; 

 sample of pierced cocoon, from Mr. Thorn ; sample of raw silk, 

 reared and reeled by Mr. Thorn ; sample of raw silk grown by 

 Mr. Arthur Gellatly, Parramatta ; sample of silk cocoon reared 

 by Dr. Cleland of Adelaide ; sample of raw silk, reeled from 

 •cocoon reared by Dr. Cleland ; sample of silk fabric from silk 

 raised by Dr. Cleland ; nine parts of the illustrated work by J. 

 Ednie Brown upon the Forest Flora of South Australia ; some 

 30 samples of the timber of New South Wales. 



11. Bacteriology (W. C. Wilkinson, m.d.) — Pure cultures of 

 Bacilli on agar agar or gelatine ; microscopical preparations of 

 Bacilli. 



12. Bibliology (Alfred F. H. Stephen.)— The Bishop's Bible, 

 a.d. 1568, vulgarly called the "Treacle" Bible, for the render- 

 ing of Jeremiah viii. 22 : — " Is there no treacle in Gilead." [By 

 permission of the Vestry of St. Philip.] The Bible and Prayer 

 Book which came out in the First Fleet, and used by the Rev. 

 Richard Johnson, b. a., the first clergyman in Australia. (Andrew 

 Houison, m.b.) — History of the Post Office and of the Issue of 

 Postage Stamps in New South Wales, 1890 ; photograph of a page 

 from Capt. Cook's Log [British Museum copy] for period during 

 which he was in Botany Bay ; lithographs of the first merinos 

 introduced into Australia ; prize ram and ewe exhibited at Parra- 

 matta, October, 1828 ; and of the Irish race-horse " Skeleton," 

 the first Australian race-horse, 1832. (Dr. Thos. M. Martin.) — 

 Copy of works of Tacitus, a.d. 1551. (Rev. W. Wyatt Gill, b.a., 

 ll.d.)— Pom are's letter, with a literal translation, dated 2nd 

 March, 1819 ; this Pomare is the original one who first embraced 

 the Gospel in Tahiti. 



13. Botany (Rev. Robert Collie, f.l.s.) — Collection of crypto- 

 gams, algte, lichens, mosses, ferns. 



14. Curios (Hon. G. H. Cox, m.l.c.) — Japanese albums ; pair 

 of Cloisonne vases ; inlaid metal plate and bronze box. 



15. Engineering Appliances (Prof. Warren, m. Inst. C.E., Wh. .Sc.) 

 — Oil testing machine ; small testing machine, for cement, wire, 

 and other materials (made in the University engineering labora- 

 tory); expansion rollers for bridges ; valve gears, link motions ; 

 Reuleaux's Curvograph ; parallel flow, Girard's, outward flow and 

 inward flow turbines. 



16. Microscopes (The members of the Microscopical Section.) 

 — Messrs. Dr. Mackellar ; H. G. A. Wright (Kock's bacillus of 

 -consumption) ; Ebenezer Macdonald (specimens of pond life) ; S. 



Cornwell ; T. F. Wiesener (polariscope objects, insects, etc.) ; F. 

 B. Kyngdon ; Wm. M. Hamlet, f.c.s., f.i.c. 



