PRESIDEVTS ADDRESS. 



later date. A few references to European publications have also 

 been added. 



The Library of the Society has been increased, as usual, by 

 exchanges and donations of very considerable value. x4.mong the 

 donations the following seem to deserve particular mention ; the 

 Hon. William Macleay has presented large collections of scientific 

 periodicals and of other works, especially upon Ichthyology and 

 Fish Culture, Ornithology and other branches of Natural History; 

 we have also received important contributions to the Library 

 from Baron v. Miiller, Dr. Cox, Dr. Ramsay, Mr. Ratte, Dr. 

 Katz, Mr. G. A. Tucker, Dr. Dixson, Mr. Sangster, Mr. H. C. 

 Russell, Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods ; also from the Governments 

 of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and 

 Tasmania ; as well as from the various Societies with which we 

 are in correspondence, amounting altogether to a very considerable 

 mass of scientific literature. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Mammals. 



Mr. K. H. Bennett gives an account of the Invasion of the 

 West of N.S.W. by 3fics Tompsonii (p. 447). Dr. Ramsay 

 describes Perameles anratus, n.sp., Antechinus Froggatti, n.sp., 

 and Mus Burtoni, n.sp., all from Derby, N.W.A. 



Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld. Vol. III. — On a new species of Dendro- 

 lagus, C. W. de Vis, M.A. {p. 11). 



On Pseudochirus Forsteri, n.sp., a Phalanger from N.G., 

 Ann. and Mag. XIX., 1887, (p. 146), and on Nesonycteris 

 Woodfordi, n.sp., and Pterop^is grandis, n.sp., from the Solomon 

 Islands, P.Z.S., 1887, p. 320. By Oldfield Thomas, and on 

 Peragale leucura, n.sp., ib. XIX. (p. 397). 



Birds. 



Mr. K. H. Bennett describes the Nidification of Pachycephala, 

 sp. (p. 103). See also note by R. D. Fitzgerald, Junr., p. 970. 



