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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEE 29th, 1879. 



The Vice-President, W. J. Stephens Esq., M.A., in the Chair. 



DONATIONS. 



From Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.Gr, "Eucalyptographia," 

 decade 3, Melbourne, 1879. 



From Dr. Julius von Haast, Geology of the Provinces of 

 Canterbury and Westland, Christchurch, 1879. 



Journal of the Eoyal Microscoi)ical Society, Vol. 2, No. 5, 

 London, 1879. 



Mitthielungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, Leipzig, 

 1879. 



Zweiter Nachtrag zum Bibliothekskatalog der Zooligischen 

 Station zu Neapel, Leipzig, 1879. 



Eeport of the South Australian Institute, for 1878. 



Archives Neerlandaises der Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, 

 Haarlem, 1879, Tome 14, parts 1 and 2. 



Journal of Conchology, London, July, 1879. 



papers read. 



On the Mugilid^: of Australia. 



By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. 



Some months ago I read a Paper before this Society on the 

 Clupeida of Australia, and I endeavoured in that communication 

 to direct public attention to the great value of our undeveloped 

 fisheries. 



It is chiefly with the same object that I have now endeavoured 

 to bring together all the knowledge we possess of the Mug Hides 

 of Australia, a family of Fishes which is well represented on our 



