DONATIONS. 467 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Paris." No. 157, November, 

 1883. From the Editor. 



From the Zoological Society of London : " Proceedings," Part 3 

 for 1883 ; "Transactions," vol. xl, Part 9, October 1883, 4to; and 

 List of Yertebrated Animals, 8th edition, 1883. 



"Journal of Conchology," vol. iv., No. 4, October 1883. From 

 the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 



" Science." Yol. it, Nos. 36, 37 and 40, 12th October to 9th 

 November, 1883. From the Editor. 



" Ancient Life History of the Earth." By H. Alleyne Nicholson, 

 D.Sc, F.R.S., 1877. From Thomas Whitelegge, Esq., Waterloo. 



papers read. 



Far Southern Localities for Yarious Plants in New South 

 Wales, recorded from Mr. W. Baeuerlen's Collections. 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.H.S., F.L.S., 



F.G.S., &c. 



One of the most interesting of all subjects in Natural History, 

 whether of plants or animals, is that of tracing the regional 

 distribution of the species over their respective areas. But to 

 effect this throughout the vast empire of Nature with any approach 

 to completeness, will necessarily be a work of very much time, so 

 that it is only by the accumulation of multitudes of observations, 

 instituted all over the globe, that the natural range of each specific 

 form may at last be determined, subject even then in many cases 

 either to extension by further spreading of the species, or to 

 reduction, as they may locally become annihilated through the 

 agency of man. Any contributions to data of these kinds — 

 however trifling in themselves — will tend towards accomplishing 

 such enquiries ; and it is therefore, without much hesitation, that 

 the following notes are submitted. They emanated from collec- 

 tions recently formed on the writer's suggestion by Mr. Wilhelm 

 Baeuerlen, during a stay in the Clyde district. It is not improbable 

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