president's address. 1335 



Victorian Naturalist. — Vol. V. : Geology of Arnhem's Land, 

 Pts. I. II. J. E. T. Woods. 



Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Section C. — On some salient points in the Geology of Queensland, 

 Address by the President of the section, R. L. Jack; On the 

 Metamorphic Rocks of the Omeo district, Victoria. A. Howitt ; 

 Age of the Mesozoic Eocks of the Lake Eyre Basin ; Glacial 

 Phenomena in S. Australia. R. Tate ; Origin of the Laterite 

 in the New England district ; Cupriferous Tufts of the Passage 

 Beds between the Permo-carboniferous and the Triassic beds in 

 N.S.W. T. W. Edgeworth David ; The Mesozoic Plains of S. 

 Australia. H. Y. Lyell Brown ; The Rocks of the Hauraki 

 Goldfields. F. "VV. Hutton ; Geological Sequence of the Bowning 

 Beds. J. Mitchell ; On boulders met with in the beds and reefs 

 of the Gympie Goldfield. W. H. Rands ; On the discovery of 

 Fossils at Rockhampton. J. Smith ; How can Australian 

 Geologists safely rely upon the order of the Succession, &c. 

 R. M. Johnston. Ihid.^ Section D. — On the Influence of Physio- 

 graphic changes in the Distribution of Life in Australia, Address 

 by the President of the Section, R. Tate. 



The Department of Mines, Sydney, has published the two first 

 parts of Vol. I. of Records of the Geological Survey of N.S.W., 

 containing — (1) Notes on the Geology of the Barrier Range, Mt. 

 Browne, &c., by C. S. Wilkinson ; (2) two papers on Aboriginal 

 remains, by T. W. Edgeworth David and R. Etheridge : (3) On 

 a Lonsdaleia-like Coral ; on Dromornis ; on Cycadojoteris scolo- 

 pendrina Ratte, by R. Etheridge ; (4) on a species of Lepido- 

 dendron from Goonoo Goonoo, by R. Kidston ; (5) on the 

 Ossiferous clays of JNIyall Creek ; on the Fish and Plant beds of 

 the Talbragar River, by W. Anderson, with other Petrological and 

 Mineralogical papers. There appears a sharp discussion on the 

 genera Nototlierium and Zygomaturus in reply to Mr. Lydekker 

 by C. W. De Vis, with note by the former, in Ann. and Mag. N.H. 

 (b) IV., p. 257. I find also a paper on Atherstonia, n.g. Pahe- 

 oniscida, from the Karoo formation ; and on a tooth of Ceratodus 

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