president's address. 1221 



the tin lodes are not Quartz porphyry, but porphyritic Topaz rock, 

 with which Tourmaline occurs in quantity. 



By T. Stephens, M.A., F.G.S., a paper on the Records of Boring 

 in Upper Palaeozoic beds of Cascades, Hobart, and in the Coal 

 Measures at Tarleton, Mersey, in which the views of Mr. Johnston 

 as to the lower Greenstone are combated, and some suggestions 

 made as to the Homotaxis of the Tasmanian and Australian 

 Super-carboniferous formations, p. 403. 



By J. R. McClymont, M.A., on the Topography of Edels Land, 

 De Witt's Land, and Carpentaria, p. 407. 



From the Royal Society of Victoria we have received no commu- 

 nications during the past year. 



In the Eighteenth Volume of the Transactions of the New 

 Zealand Institute, May 1886, we find papers as follows : — First, 

 Miscellaneous, &c. : — 



By Mr. E. Tregear, maintaining the Aryan Origin of the Maori, 

 by a comparison of the language of the latter with Sanscrit, 

 (Hindustani) Persian, Gothic, Greek, Celtic, &c. He further 

 compares the Neolithic civilization of Europe with that of Old New 

 Zealand. 



By Professor v. Haast, on the Stone Weapons of the Morioii 

 and Maori. 



By W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., on ancient and modern Food Plants. 



By Mr. E. Bartley on the Building Timbers of Auckland. 



By the Rev. S. W. Baker on the New Volcano near Tongatabu* 



By J. C. Crawford, F.G.S., a strongly written protest against the 

 illogical and slovenly Methods of Spelling and Pronunciation 

 followed by English people. 



F. W. Frankland, F.I. A., has a paper on the Non-Euclidian 

 Geometry, and Mr. F. Bull on a new form of Seismograph. 



