424 THE PE0CEEDING8 OF THE LTNNEAN SOCIETY 



On the Insects and Birds of New Guinea, by Drs. Gruestro and 

 Salvadori respectively ; and on the Harjpalidce of Australia, by 

 Baron de Chaudoir. 



In the Annales de la Societe Entomologiqde de Belgique, we 

 find, A Synopsis of the genus Paropsis, by Dr. F. Chapuis ; and 

 A paper on New Australian Elateridae, by M. Candeze. 



The Annales de la Soc. Ent. de Fkance contain A third paper 

 on the Cucujidce, by M. Antoine Grouvelle ; A description of a 

 new Pa'pilio (P. Laglaizei), from New Guinea, by M. A. Depuis- 

 set ; On a Coccus living in France on an Australian Palm (^Sea- 

 forthia elegans), by M. Jules Kiinckel d' Herculais ; and A Sy- 

 nopsis of the Australian species of the Genera Guris and Neocuris, 

 of the Family Buprestidce, by M. Leon Fairraaire. 



The British Association met last year in Dublin, under the 

 Presidency of Dr. Spottisvvoode, F.R.S., &c. His inaugural 

 address contains, besides the business matters of the Association, 

 an original explanation and defence of new methods and doctrines 

 in Mathematics, which is of course foreign to our purpose. I 

 cannot, however, but quote one passage in which he observes, 

 '' Science teaches us, while ever yearning with Goethe for ' light, 

 more light,' to concentrate our attention upon that of which our 

 powers are capable, and contentedly to leave for future ex- 

 perience the solution of problems to which we can at present say 

 neither yea nor nay." This is in effect equivalent to Yirchow's 

 cautionary advice, to which I shall hereafter advert. 



In the Department of Zoology and Botany an address was de- 

 livered by Professor Flower, F.R.S. , &c., President of the section, 

 contrasting the Linnean and modern systems of Zoological classi- 

 fication, and containing also some suggestions as to nomenclature. 

 The Vice-President also delivered a sort of obituary lecture on the 

 Physiological discoveries of the late Claude Bernard, who died in 

 February last. 



In my last address I was enabled, by the courtesy of 

 Dr. Woolls, to give some account of the seventh and conclu- 

 ding volume of the Flora Australiensis, which had not then 

 been published, but which is now in our hands. This great work, 

 which has been some sixteen years in progress, was commenced 



