president's address. 869 



Conmiunity of species of Aquatic Pulinonate Mollusca between 

 Australia and Tasmania, p. 214. Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G , 

 communicates a note on von Ettingshausen's observations upon 

 the Tertiary Flora of Australia, p. 203, and a census of the Flora 

 of Deal Island, Kent's Group, p. 282. Mr. T. Stephens, F.G S., 

 etc., contributes a note upon the operations of Boring for Coal 

 then (June, 1884) in progress at Tarleton on the Mersey, and 

 near the Cascades Brewery at Hobart, and expresses his doubts 

 as to a successful result. And Mr. Morton, Curator of the 

 Royal Society's Museum, gives an account of the appearance of 

 Oestrus ovis in Tasmania. 



Volume XXI of the Royal Society of Victoria (for 1884) 

 contains, besides the address of the President, Mr. R. J. Ellery, 

 F.R.S., F.R.A.S., papers as follows :— 



By Mr. G. S. Griffiths (p. 1) On the evidences of a Glacial Epoch 

 in Victoria during Post Miocene times. In this paper the author 

 dwells principally upon the phenomena of the Boulder drifts and 

 Alluvium of the country, and argues that the theory of Dr. Croll 

 ofters a satisfactory, and indeed the only, explanation both of the 

 Glacial Epoch, and of the great oscillations of sea level which are 

 evidenced by the large Tertiary marine formations of Southern 

 Australia. An interpretation of the Triple series of Victorian 

 Golddrifts in accordance with these views closes the paper. 



By Mr. James Stirling, F.L.S., Omeo (p. 29), a continuation of 

 his review of the Phanerogamia of the Mitta Mitta source basin, 

 with a list of all its known flowering plants and their localities. 

 Also (p. 123) Notes on the Meteorology of the Australian Alps, 

 with some observations as to their former glaciation, in reference 

 to the paper by Mr. Griffiths, mentioned above. 



By Mr. W. Culcheth, M. Inst. C.E., F.R. Met. Soc. On the 

 Shingle deposits of New Zealand, with special reference to the 

 movement of shingle under wave action, and the resulting 

 phenomena, p. 52. 



By Mr. J. Lockhart Morton, on Artiticial Cooling of Hospitals, 

 itc, p. SQ. 



