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of too completely a professional character to come properly into 

 the category of Papers on the Science of Natural History. 



The following Papers have been read at the meetings of the 

 Microscopical Society of Victoria during 1876 : — 



On the Demidracete and Confervacece. By Charles Maplestone. 

 On a Microscopic Examination of Milk. 

 On the Use of the Microscope in Post Mortem Analysis. 

 On the Vinegar Plant ; and on Tappa, made by the Fijians 

 from the inner bark of the Artocarpus (Bread Fruit). By 

 Mr. Sydney Gibbons. 

 On the Micrology of some Igneous Dykes of North Gipps- 



land. By Mr. A. W. Howitt. 

 On the Simulation of Death and Tenacity of Life exhibited 



by many Australian Coleoptera. By Mi-. C. French. 

 On a Conferva inhabited by a Rotifer. 



On a Coccus-like insect, with triple hairs twisted together ; 

 and two Papers on mounting and preparing objects for 

 the Microscope. By Dr. Ralph, the President of the 

 Society. 

 I have not heard of anything having been done by the Zoolo- 

 gical and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria during the past year. 

 Baron Von Mueller has added considerably to our knowledge 

 of the botany of Australia and New Guinea by several publi- 

 cations. 



In Tasmania several interesting Papers on the Mollusca of that 

 colony have been read at the meetings of the Royal Society 

 of Tasmania, by the Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F. G. S., 

 F.L.S., &c. 



South Australia seems not to have contributed anything to the 

 literature of Natural History during the year. 



In the Queensland Philosophical Society a Paper has been read 

 on some new and rare specimens of Australian Birds, by Mr. S, 

 Diggles, 



