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WEDNESDAY, MAECH 25th, 1879. 



The Eev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.G-.S., etc , President, in the 

 Chair. 



DONATIONS. 



The Illustrated Monograph of the Grasses of Queensland, 

 from the Board of Inquiry into the Causes of Disease in Live 

 Stock and Plants, Brisbane. 



Vol. I., Part 3, of the Australian Medical Journal, — from the 

 Medical Society of Victoria. 



papers read. 

 On the Eelations of the Brisbane Flora. 



By the Eev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c, &c. 



Now that the great work of cataloguing our Australian Flora 

 has been concluded, and that the Flora Australiensis of Bentham 

 and Mueller is a standard of reference to which recourse can 

 easily be had, the preparation of local floras will be the first 

 care of Australian botanists. Until this is done, the real 

 character of Australian vegetation will hardly be manifest. 

 At present our knowledge does not go much further than an 

 enumeration of species. Their geographical distribution has 

 hardly been touched upon. Information as to the habitat where 

 each specimen has been found is of course given in the " Flora," 

 but the range of the species is not attempted. It could not be, 

 indeed, without rendering the work inconveniently bulky, and 

 as yet the information at the disposal of Mr. Bentham for the 

 purpose is necessarily very small. Nor can this deficiency be 

 remedied until a very large number of local floras have been 

 published, and for this I suppose we shall have to wait many 



