XVlll. PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 



an Australian geologist has been thus honoured. I have great 

 satisfaction in offering to him the Society's most cordial con- 

 gratulations. The Wollaston Medal has been awarded annually 

 since 1831 — except for one short interval, 1832-34; and the list 

 of recipients includes the names of many distinguished men of 

 science. We value highly this appreciation of the work of our 

 senior University instructor in Geology, well known to us not 

 only as an inspiring teacher, but as a field-geologist of repute, 

 and a leading authority on the branches of the subject with 

 which he is particularly identified. 



The local output of non-serial scientific liturature during last 

 year in addition to the Federal and State Handbooks prepared 

 for the British Association Meeting in Australia, of which men- 

 tion has already been made includes some important works, to 

 which I may briefly refer, beeause they aie contributions to 

 knowledge which will be helpful to students, and may be ex- 

 pected to stimulate a new or extended interest in the groups or 

 subjects of which they treat. Such are Waterhouse and Lyell's 

 " Butterflies of Australia : a Monograph of the Australian 

 Rhopalocera"— Dr. H. I.Jensen's much-needed treatise on "The 

 Soils of New South Wales," published by the Department of 

 Agriculture of New South Wales —Volume ii. of Miss F. 

 ^ulman's "Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South 

 Wales," which, it may be hoped, will arouse interest, especially 

 on the part of women, in the native plants — A new and up-to- 

 date edition of the Geological Map of New South Wales, pre- 

 pared under the direction of the Government Geologist, and 

 issued by the Department of Mines. 



We are glad to welcome one new, and one improved serial, in 

 Part i. of the "Australian Zoologist," issued by the Royal 

 Zoological Society of New South Wales; and No. i. of Vol. xx., 

 of the "Scientific Australian," the Publishers of which hope to 

 extend its scope, so as to offer an opportunity for the publication 

 of short, popular papers on Science of general interest. The facili- 

 ties for the publication of scientific work done by unofficial 

 individuals have not materially improved in this State since this 

 Society was founded forty years ago, whereas the number of 



