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" Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard 

 College," Cambridge, Massachusetts, Vol. VI , No. 11, 8vo., 1881. 

 From the Museum. 



" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia" 

 Yearly volumes for 1876, 77, 78, 79, — , 81, 8vo. From the 

 Society. 



" Memoires de 1' Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Peters- 

 bourg," Tomes xxiii. to xxix. and xxx., Nos. 1, 2, and 5, 4to., 



1875-82. 



" Bulletin de 1' Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Peters- 

 bourg," Tomes xxi. to xxvii. and xxviii., No. 1, 4to., 1875-82. 

 From the Academy. 



" On Chilostomatous Bryozoa from Bairnsdale," (Gippsland) 

 By Arthur Wm. Waters, F.G.S. From the author. 



papers read. 

 On the Fossil Flora of the Coal Deposits of Australia. 

 By the Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S., Vice- 

 President Linnean Society, New South Wales. 



In the month of August 1880 a paper was read before the 

 Royal Society of New South Wales from Dr. O. Feistmantel, on 

 the fossil flora of Eastern Australia and Tasmania. This essay 

 comprised a most valuable series of observations on all that was 

 known on the subject of our Australian coal plants, for though it 

 only professed to deal with those of eastern colonies, it included the 

 paleontological flora of Victoria as well. It was a brief epitome 

 of all that was then known of our fossil flora. Dr. Feistmantel, 

 however, laboured under the disadvantage of having only the 

 specimens collected from a comparatively restricted area and 

 numerically few. Had he been able to visit the fields from which 

 the specimens were taken he would have observed that the flora of 

 each particular locality included a much larger number of species 



