president's address. 1223 



By W. Colenso, F.L.S., on new plants of the orders Filices, 

 Musei and Hepatica?. Also, new species of Raniuicrdus, Stellaria, 

 Stack! imisia, Pomaderris, Haloragis, Gunnera, Hydrocotyle, Go\> 

 rosma, Olearia, Mentha, Plmelea, Attstralina, Arthropodium, 

 Litzida, Scirpits, Isolepis, Gahnia, 7 Genera of Orchids, and 

 various Cryptogams. Also, on Weeds introduced from Britain, 

 and on CUanihus puniceus. D. Petrie, M.A., describes n. sp. of 

 Gotula, Myosotis, and Carex. Mr. R. M. Laing writes on the 

 Classification of Alga?, and the Fucoids of Banks Peninsula ; 

 J. Baber, C.E., on the growth of Transplanted Trees ; T. F. 

 Cheeseman, F.L.S., on n. sp. of Goprosma ; J. Buchanan, F.L.S., 

 on Cyttaria Purdiei) T. Khk, F.L.S., on Nelson Flora ; and W. M. 

 Maskell, F.R.M.S., on a new Desmid. 



The Fourth or Geological section contains papers by Capt. W. 

 H utton, F.G.S., on the Geology of Scinde Island, on which the 

 town of Napier is built, arguing that it is composed of rocks 

 belonging to the Petane series resting unconfonnably on limestone 

 and sandstone beds belonging to the Ahuriri series. Also 

 descriptions of new Tertiary Shells ; and a paper on the Wanganui 

 System, its fossils, and its relations to the Paieora. Mr. A. 

 McKay also discusses the question of the age of the Scinde 

 Island rocks, and comes to conclusions opposite to those arrived 

 at by Capt. Hutton, in his paper mentioned above. A full report 

 of the observations of the Total Solar Eclipse, September 9th, 

 1 885, is to be found in Section V., together with a paper by Prof. 

 F. D. Brown, upon Siemen's Theory of the maintenance of Solar 

 Heat. Section VI., Chemistry, contains notes of a new alloy of 

 nickel, Aivaruite, from Barn Bay, by Mr. W. Skey, and on 

 Platinum Crystals in the iron sands of Orepuki Goldfield, by Mr. 

 W. S. Hamilton. 



The Eighth Volume of the Royal Society of S. Australia, (for 

 1884-5) issued May, 188C, contains papers as follows : — 



By Mr. J. J. East, on a Geological Section from Port Wakefield, 

 at the head of St. Vincent's Gulf to the plains of the Murray, in 



