president's address. 865 



The Rev. J. jMilne Curran, F.G.S., gives an account of the 

 Geology of Dubbo, with special reference to the Mesozoic Car- 

 boniferous Beds. He regards the succession in the descending 

 scale as follows : — 1 Hawkesbury, 2 Clarence, 3 Ballinore, 4 

 Newcastle Upper Coal Measures, p. 170, pi. XXIT. XXTII. 

 Also, Notes on the Geology and Subterranean Water Supply of 

 the North-western Interior, p. 233, pi. XXV. ^ in which he deals 

 especially with the underground courses and waters of the 

 Macquarie River. 



Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., ikc, &c., records the occurrence 

 of a remarkable Haloragis (H. monof^perma ) from New South 

 Wales, and gives a list of plants which have been recently traced 

 far to the South of their previously known range in New South 

 Wales, p. 197. He also contributes a short paper on Edible 

 Fruits from the Maclay Coast, N. Guinea, p. 35.5. 



Mr. George Masters commences a new and complete Catalogue 

 of Australian Coleoptera. Part I., containing the Cicindelidce, 

 and Garahidce, p. 359 ; part IL, inchiding the Dytisci'Jce, 

 Gyrinidce, StcqiJiylinidci' , l-'aelaphidce Paussidce, Scydmoeniuos, 

 jSilphidce, Trichopterygldif, Scaphididce, Histeridca, Phalacrid(e, 

 Nitidulidce, Trogositidce, Colydidce, Rhysodidce, Cucujidce, Crypto- 

 phagida?^ L(dridiid(B, Mycetopliagidce, Dermestidw, Byrrhidce, Georys- 

 sidce, Partiidce, and Jfef.eroceridcH, 970 species, p. 583. 



Mr. E. Haviland, F.L.S., discusses the Fertilisation of the Genus. 

 Goodenia, as has been already mentioned, p. 237, and continues, 

 his Notes on Plants Indigenous near Sydney, p. 458. In this 

 part. No. 9, he examines the pollination of Lyonsia reticulata 

 (Apocynaceae), and arrives at the conclusion that this plant is 

 closely self -fertilised. 



Mr. E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., &c.. Curator of the Australian 

 Museum, decribes Birds from Mount Astrolabe, New Guinea, p. 

 243, and a new species of Colluricincla, C. Boiveri, from Cairns, 

 Queensland, p. 244, and in conjunction with Mr. Douglas-Ogilby, 

 as mentioned before, several new species of fishes, pp. 575, 757, 

 851. 



