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copper. But Australia in future will smelt her own copper, by a 
thirty six hours’ process; saving all this useless freight of the 
8,400 tons of refuse—and saving also the cost of the old and 
expensive process. In a very few years Australia will send to 
market more copper than is now produced by all the rest of the 
world. But if our future penny-pieces are to bear any proportion 
to the reduced cost and value of the metal, they must be made of 
the size of dinner plates.— Athenmum, Mag, 1847. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
Continued from page 230. 
July 8, 1845. 
Mr. Gould exhibited to the Meeting five new species of 
Mammals:— 
Mus LiNEOLAXUS. M. vellere longo, molli fusco-cinereo cor- 
pore subtils cinerascenti-albo indistinct<i ftavo-lavato ; 
auribus mediocribus extus pilis nigris postich cinerascentibus 
vestitis ; pedibus albis ; caudd albd suprd nigriscentibus. 
unc. tin. 
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudse basin.. 5 4 
- caudce .. 4 5 
- ab apice rostri ad basin auris.. 1 2 
- auris .. 0 7^ 
- tarsi digitorumque . 1 2^ 
Hab. Open plains. Darling Downs, New South Wales. 
Fur long and very soft; the hairs of the back of a deep slate- 
grey, with the exposed portion of a dirty yellowish hue, and the 
points black ; long interspersed black pointed hairs are abundant 
on the back, and give a deep general tint to that part; sides of 
the body greyish yellow, under parts grey-white, faintly suffused 
with yellowish; the hairs on these parts of a deepish grey, 
excepting at the point; hairs of the moustaches rather small and 
black; eye encircled with black; ears of moderate size and well- 
covered with minute hairs; those on the outer side except black, 
