president's address. 1099 



Typhoid and Leprosy at Little Bay Hospital (p. 203), Phosphore- 

 scent Bacteria from Seawater (pp. 331, 626), discusses the practice 

 of Protective Inoculation for Bovine Pleuropneumonia (p. 423), 

 and gives an account of his investigations into the Horse Murrain 

 which broke out near the Barrier Ranges a year ago (p. 565). Mr. 

 Maiden describes specimens of indigenous Sago and Tobacco from 

 N. Gr. (p. 457). Mr. A. G. Hamilton gives a list of the indigenous 

 Plants of the Mudgee District, their habitats and time of flower- 

 ing, with numerical notes ingeniously indicating the geographical 

 distribution of each species in the briefest possible manner ; and 

 in particular compares the Mudgee with the Sydney Flora. Dr. 

 Haswell in his Jottings from the Biological Laboratory of Sydney 

 University gives some notes on Tmesipteris and Psilotum (p. 1025) ; 

 and we have a List of Hepaticaj collected by Mr. T. VVhite- 

 legge in New South Wales, 1884-85, By B. Carrington, M.D., 

 F.R.S.E., and W. H. Pearson. 



I also note in Vol. XX. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. from Baron v. 

 Mueller, a description of Ardisia poranthera, n.sp. from N. G. 

 (p. 43), and further additions to the Census of indigenous Plants 

 (p. 75). From Dr. Bancroft, a note on the poisonous properties 

 of Dajjhnmidra repandula, Archidendron Faillantii, Ponganiia glabra, 

 Zanthoxylum venejicum, all from the Johnstone River, N. Queens- 

 land (p. 69), and Professer Rennie describes his analysis of the 

 sweet principle of Smilax glyciphylla (p. 211). In Vol. XXL 

 Mr, Maiden investigates the Tanning jn-operties of a large number 

 of sp. of Acacia, Eucryphia, Eucalyptus, Angophora and Fusanus 

 (pp. 27, 82), and the Rev. H. Collie, the influence of Bush 

 Fires in the distribution of species. 



Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. I.e. — On Peronospora infedans (p. 27), and 

 Tasmanian Mosses, being a complete description of all known 

 species, including 43 not recorded in Fl. Tasm., together with an 

 illustrated Key to the genera R. A. Bastow, F.L.S. (p. 38). 

 Case of poisoning by Rhus radicans. F. Abbott, Supt. Bot. Card, 

 (p. 182). On Eucalyptus Muelleri, n.sp. (or more properly, ace. 

 Bai-on V. Mueller), a vai-, of E. urnigera) . T. B. Moore (p. 207). 



