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president's address. 



The principal pottiou of the Address however, is devoted to a 

 full account of the Tarawera eruptions, a subject so large that I 

 have as above collected a number of different essays at its treat- 

 ment under a separate head. 



Glacial Periods in the South Temperate Zone. 



The questions involved under this heading are now rising into 

 such prominence that the papers dealing with them may proiierly 

 like the foregoing be collected in a separate parcel. The file may 

 commence (since we have neither space nor time for a complete 

 bibliography) with—The Memorandum on the Correlation of the 

 Indian and Australian Coal bearing Beds, by R. Oldham, Geo). 

 Mag. On the occurrence of Glacial conditions in the Palteozoic 

 Era, and on the Geological Age of the Beds containing Plants of 

 Mesozoic tjpe in India and Australia. By W. T. T. Blanford, 

 F.R.S. (Q.J.G.S. XLII. 249). Records Geolog. Sur. Ind. Vol! 

 XIX. (p. 11) Waagen and Oldham. 



On evidence of Glacial Action in the Carboniferous and 

 Hawkesbury series, N.S.W. By Mr. T. W. E. David, F.G.S. 

 (Q.J.G.S. XLIII. 190). 



Evidences of a Glacial Epoch from Kerguelen's Land, drawn 

 from the Challenger's reports. By G. S. Griffiths, F.R.S. (Proc. 

 Roy. Soc. Vic. XXIII. p. 4-5). 



On Glaciated Pebbles and Boulders in the so-called Mesozoic 

 Conglomerates of Victoria, by E. J. Dunn, F.G.S. (ib. XXIV. p. 44). 



In Proc. L.S. N.S.W., YlL, p. 598, an account is given by 

 myself of the conglomerate of the Upper Marine Beds at Wallera- 

 wang and Capertee. Ib. Vol. X., 44, is a paper on the Glacial 

 Period in Australia, R. v. Lendenfeld, Ph.D. Ib. p. 334, and On 

 the supposed Glacial Period in Australia, by Captain Button, 

 F.G.S. (in which reference is made to N.Z. Journal of Science, 

 Vol. II., p. 266, and Q.J.G.S., XLL, p. 213.) C. W. Wilkinson, 

 F.G.S., in Pres. Add., 1884 (p. 1230), refers to the same ques- 

 tion. A paper by Robert M. Johnston, F.L.S., Roy. Soc, Ta.s- 

 mania, 1886 (p. 23). By Gavin Scoular, on a glacial period in 



