88 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE L1NNEAN SOCIETY 



Of these the Royal Society of Victoria takes the first place. 



The papers read at its meetings during the last year on subjects 



connected with Natural History were : — 



On some upper Paleozoic Polyzoa from Queensland. By Mr. R. 



Etheridge. 



■ On the Importance of a more close and systematic observation 



of the Oceanic and Atmospheric Phenomena of our Coasts. By 

 Mr. T. Rawlinson. 



An account of some of the results of the Challenger Expedition. 

 By Mr. G. Foord. 



On the phenomena of approach and recession exhibited by 

 bodies under the influence of radial energy. By Mr. A. M. 

 Smith. 



On the meteor of April 15. By Mr. J. Berry. 

 The Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria have, I 

 am told, published during the year a volume of their Transactions, 

 but I have been unable to procure, or even see, a copy of it, and I 

 am entirely without information as to the character of the publi- 

 cation. 



The Microscopical Society of Melbourne has, I am informed, 

 held many meetings during the year, but has not published any- 

 thing. 



The Mining Department of the Victorian Government has just 

 published a geological map of the whole of Australia, accompanied 

 by a progress report of the geological survey of Victoria. By Mr- 

 R. B. Smyth. A description of some fossil fruits from the gold 

 drift sections of Victoria. By Baron Von Mueller. — Two decades 

 of the paleontology of Victoria. By Professor M'Coy.— Several 

 essays by the analyst, Mr. Cosmo Newberry, Mr. Howitt, and 

 others taking part in the geological survey. 



Baron Von Mueller has also just published a small pamphlet on 

 some Papuan plants, collected during my late expedition to New 

 Guinea, in the Chevert. The same distinguished botanist has, I 

 believe, published several parts of his " Fragmenta Phyoi graphic? 

 Australia:;' during the past year, as well as a long and really 

 useful article in some publication connected with the International 

 Exhibition at Philadelphia, on the subject of the vegetative capa- 

 bilities of Victoria. 



