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of the valuable services rendered by them in exploring, investi- 

 gating, and arranging the Natural History of Australasia : — 

 Professor Owen, C.B., &c. 

 George Bentham, F.R.S., P.L.S., &c. 

 Captain Hutton. 

 N. N. de Miklucho-Maclay. 

 The Royal Society of New South Wales, which has suffered 

 so severe a loss in the death of its venerable Vice-President, 

 has received the following contributions during the past year, in 

 the order in which they are here reported. As it is the senior 

 Scientific Society, not only of Sydney, but also of Australia, I 

 have thought it right to enumerate all its papers without distinc- 

 tion of subject : — 



" Timber Producing Forests of Tasmania," by Rev. J. E. 



Tenison- Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S, 

 " A Proposed Correction to the Assumed Longitude of the 



Sydney Observatory," by J. Tebbutt, F.R.A.S. 

 " Metallurgy of Nickel and Cobalt," by W. A. Dixon, F.C.S., 



F.J.C., &c. 

 " Meteorology of the Coast of New South Wales, and the 

 desirability of issuing storm warnings from the Obser- 

 vatory," by Captain Marshall Smith, of the ship " J. 

 L. Hall." 

 " Storms on the Coast of New South Wales," by H. C. 



Russell, B.A., F.R.A.S., F.M.S. 

 " On Molluscan Fauna of Tasmania," and " On some new 

 Australian Miocene Corals," by Rev. J. E. Tenison- 

 Woods, F.L.S., F.G.S. 

 "The Deep Well Waters of Sydney," by W. A. Dixon, 



F.C.S., F.J.C., &c. 

 " Some Results of an Astronomical Experiment on the Blue 



Mountains," by H. C. Russell, B. A., F.R.A.S., F.M.S. 

 ' The Rise and Progress of Photography," by L. W. Hart, 



Esq. 

 " Notes on Huan Island Guano," by W. A. Dixon, F.C.S., 



F.J.C., &c. 

 " Some Facts about the Great Tidal Wave, May, 1877," by 

 J. P. Josephson, Esq. 



