Physical description

Leather bound ledger with hand written details on donations to the Ballarat School of Mines Museum or the Ballarat School of Mines Library.

The Ledger was made by J. McHutchison, Bookbinder, paper ruler and Account Book Manufacturer.

267. 07 July 1880 - John Lynch Junior - Smythesdale - Cast of "Golden Age" nugget found at Browns by Co-operative Party - 12 men. Weight 75 oz 12 dwts 12 grs
294. 24 June 1880 - W.H. Shaw - Ballarat - 94 numbers of 'The Engineer'.
295. 28 June 1880 - Rivett Henry Bland - Clunes - Specimen of water pipe from the Port Phillip Consols Mine encrusted with Carbonates of lime and magnesia and sulphate of lime with earthy matter.
418. 17 June 1881 - F. Ratte - Sydney - Catalogue of Rocks, minerals, etc of New Caledonia.
462. 28 September 1881 - Dr Bunce - Ballarat - Concretionary Basalt with Car. Lime and Magnesia.
465. 06 September 1881 - J.J. Sleep (Chairman of the Board) per favor of E.W. Spain, Esq, Manr - Ballarat - Diamond drill core from "Carisbrook Freehold Estate" - cut at a depth of 150 feet. Dedrites from Munster Gully ...
517. 20 January 1882 - William Lester - Ballarat - The Agricultural Teacher
549. 24 March 1882 - C.E. Grainger Manager Ballarat Woollen Mills - Ballarat - Samples of dyed and raw wool and dye material.
600. 04 July 1882 - Henry Sutton - Ballarat - 13th Annual Report of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain.
1222. 31 October 1884 - Trooper Dowling - Miner's Rest - Owl
1223. 04 November 1884 - W. McKeenan - 3, Adair St, Ballarat - Flying Squirrel.
1259. 16 January 1885 - A.A. Buley - Ballarat - Prospective of Grenville College 1885
1428. 06 October 1885 - Ballarat - Collection of mineral specimens from Silverton (Collected by Mr James Murray).
1442. 20 October 1885 - Ballarat - Specimen of fossil fruits collected by Haddon by Charles Brown.
1682. 28 February 1887 - James Lamb - Ballarat - Copy of the Ballarat Times Newspaper of 3rd December 1854, framed and protected on both sides with glass.
1730. 23 May 1887 - Bella Guerin - Ballarat - Copy of the Victorian Review No 74 December 1885
4786. 27 March 1894 - James Oddie - Ballarat - 3 mineral specimens
4835. 01 August 1896 - P.V> Barnard - Ballarat - {ortion of Mining truck wheel altered to oxide of iron found in the old workings of the Golden Gate Mine at a depth of 200 feet.
(4235 is last entry)