866 phesiuent's addrkss 



Mr. Gervase F. Mathew, R.N., &c., contributes Notes on the 

 Natural History of the Clareniont Islands, p. 251, and An 

 Afternoon among the Butterflies of Thursday Island, p. •259. 



Mr. E. Meyrick, B.A , F. E.S., continues his Descriptions of 

 Australian Microlepidoptera, p. 765. 



The Eighteenth Yearly Volume of the Journal and Proceedings 

 of the Royal Society of New South Wales, for 1884, is the last 

 as yet published. From it we learn that the usual Address was 

 delivered at the commencement of the Session, May 7, 1884, by 

 the President, the late Professor Smith, C.M.G., M.L.C., Arc. 



After a brief relation of the scientific labours of M. Pasteur, 

 then recently elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of 

 N.S.W., in the room of Charles Darwin, he passed to a description 

 of his recent visit to Europe, in which he gave a general account 

 of Dr. Dohrn's zoological station at Naples, of Vesuvius, and of 

 various European Universities, of electric lighting in England, of 

 apparatus acquired by him for the Sydney University, and at 

 greater length on the red sunsets and the eruption of Krakatoa, 

 which he did not consider to be the cause of these phenomena. 



Mr. W. Shellshear, Assoc. M. Inst. C. read (June 4) a paper 

 on the Improvement of the Bar Harbours and River Entrances of 

 the Coast of N.S.W., illustrated by 6 maps, p. 25. 



Dr. A. Leibius, M.A., F.C.S., read (July 2) a paper on (1) The 

 Gold of Mount Morgan, and improved methods of extraction 

 from its ferruginous matrix ; (2) The Preparation of Fine Gold ; 

 and (3) on the volatilisation of gold in the furnaces of the Sydney 

 Mint, p. 37. 



Professor Liversidge, F.R.S., read on the same day a paper on 

 Native and Crystalline Gold ; Tourmaline from Uralla ; Scheelite 

 from Hillgrove ; Axinite, Idocrase, and Chrome Iron 'from 

 Nundle ; Concretion of Iron Pyrites from Sunny Corner, with 

 partings of silica, &c., &c. , p. 43. 



The Rev. P. Macpherson, M.A., also on the same day, described 

 the Blackfellow's Ovens, or Kitchen Middings, near Meredith, 

 between Geelong and Ballarat, with speculations on their 



