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Tasmanian Society. 
C. S. Henty, Esq., gave a very full and interesting account of 
the habits, manners, and customs of the aborigines of Portland 
Bay district, where he had resided for some months, and had had 
frequent opportunities of observing them. 
May 5, 1847. 
The reading of Captain Sturt’s Journal resumed and concluded. 
June 2, 1847. 
W. Archer, jun., Esq., was elected a member. 
Joseph Milligan, Esq., produced specimens of Galena, which 
occurs in thin seams in the mountain limestone about six miles 
below the ford on the River Franklin, near Macquarie Harbour. 
Mr. Milligan observed that it may probably occur in richer seams 
more to the north. 
Mr. Milligan exhibited an extensive suite of specimens of the 
fossils peculiar to the mountain limestone near Macquarie Har¬ 
bour. Beds of flint occur in layers in this limestone. He also 
described a tufaceous formation in a cave on the banks of the 
river Gordon, in which were imbedded vertebrae of the wallaby, 
and numerous specimens of the existing land shells. Over the 
place where these occurred there was a hole in the roof of the 
cave, one hundred feet overhead, down which the animals and 
shells must have dropped. 
Dr. W. R. Pugh produced a specimen of Mercury stated to be 
found in a spring on the farm occupied by Mr. Tooth at Bagdad. 
Dr. Pugh was of opinion that the mercury was from some instru¬ 
ment which had been at some time broken in the cask which was 
at present used as a receiver for the water from the spring. 
The Secretary announced that a Society had recently been 
established at Melbourne, under the auspices of His Honor C. J. 
Latrobe, Esq., upon similar principles and with corresponding 
objects to the Tasmanian Society ; and that it was most probable 
the results of their labours in that most interesting country would 
be published in the Tasmanian Journal. 
