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These facts speak for themselves ; they show that we have 

 amongst us some earnest workers, and that the Council of the 

 Society have done their duty in publishing the proceedings with- 

 out delay, a matter of the utmost consequence in a society formed 

 for original research. 



In my present address I shall give yon, as well as my opportuni- 

 ties enable me, — 



1st. A list of the Papers and Publications on the Natural 

 History of the whole of the Australian region which 

 have been published or come to our knowledge during 

 the year 1876. 



2nd. A general survey of the progress of Natural Science 



during the same period ; and — 

 3rd. A few observations on the future of the Society, and 



on some subjects which it is desirable that observation 



should be directed to. 



As regards the first of these — the Natural History of the 

 Australian region — I shall commence with our own proceedings, 

 giving them without comment in the exact order in which the 

 papers were read. 



Description of two species of Helix from Queensland. By 

 John Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 



Description of thirty-five new species of Land Shells col- 

 lected during the Chevert Expedition. By John 

 Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 



Notes on a Collection of Geological Specimens from Torres 

 Straits and New Guinea. By C. S. Wilkinson, Govern- 

 ment Geologist. 



List of Land Shells of the Chevert Expedition. Bv John 

 Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 



Description of a new Ptilinopus from New Hebrides. By 

 E. Pierson Ramsay, E.L.S. 



