president's address. 873 



The Seventh Annual Volume of the Royal Society of South 

 Australia contains Papers and Notes as follows : — 



By James Stirling, F.L.S., Cor. Member, on a Geological 

 Sketch Section through the Australian Alps, from Dargo to 

 Mount Pilot, p. 1, pi. I-II. 



By W, f?amuel Dixon, in a letter to Prof. Tate, expressing his 

 conviction that no coal beds exist upon the Fitzgerald River, the 

 sandstones of which are probably contemporaneous with the 

 Murray Cliffs, p. 9. 



By E. Meyrick, B.A., a List of South Australian Microle 

 pidoptera, with localities of each, p. 10. 



By Clement L. Wragge, F.R.G.S., F.R. Met. Soc, p. 17 ; and 

 by W. A. Jones, p. 56, on The Red Sunsets, which are ascribed to 

 Dust by the first, to Vapour by the second. 



By Professor R. Tate, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c., A Remarkable and 

 Valuable Paper on the Basin of the Lower Murray, containing 

 .(1) Historical and Bibliographical Introduction; (2) Physical 

 Features of the Murray Plateau ; (3) The Floods of the Murray, 

 Proposals for Improvement of its Course, and on the Quality of 

 the Water ; (4) The alluvium or River Flats ; (5) Origin of the 

 Gorge (Murray Cliffs) ; (6) Sections ; and (7) Palaeontology of 

 the Older Tertiary or Murravian ; (8) Sections of the Newer 

 Tertiary ; (9) Leading Botanical Features. Also, Descriptions 

 • of New Species of South Australian Plants, p. 67 ; Additions to 

 the Flora of Extra-Tropical South Australia, p. 72 ; and 

 Botanical Notes, p. 74, pi. III. 



By J. G. O. Tepper, F.L S., Corr. Member, on Two rare (new?) 

 Insects (described but not named), pp. 47-48, pi. Ill- A. ; and on 

 the Plants of Kangaroo Island, p. 50. 



The First Volume of Proceedings of the Royal Society of 

 Queensland, for 1884, contains the Inaugural Address, by the Hon. 

 A. C. Gregory, CM G., F.R.G.S., &c., and a paper on the 

 Mount Moi'gan Deposits, p. 141, by the same author, and the 

 following papers of general interest — 



