president's address. 537 



Fragmenta Phytograj)hice Australice by Baron von Miiller, must in 

 the course of time appear in supplementary volumes to the Flora 

 Australiensis. From the sources, however, now before the public, 

 some estimate can be formed of the species indigenous to the 

 colony, and of the range to which they are limited. With 

 regard to the latter, careful observation is still required in all 

 parts of Australia, for plants, which, a few years since, were 

 supposed to belong to adjacent colonies are now found to be 

 common to New South Wales." With such acknowledgment in 

 regard to the work that yet remains to be done, even in those 

 lines of research in which so much has been accomplished, we are 

 naturally led to take cognizance of the efforts of the Society in 

 furtherance of its object. And in so doing we cannot but be 

 gratified with the progress made at this early stage of the Society's 

 existence. A perusal of the eight Volumes of our Proceedings 

 will show that those subjects to which attention has been chiefly 

 directed, are Conchology, Ornithology, Botany, Ichthyology, Geology 

 and Entomology. 



In Conchology upwards of 64 papers have been contributed. The 

 first paper read before the Society was entitled, " Descriptions of 

 fourteen new species of Shells." By John Brazier, C.M.Z.S., etc., 

 who has contributed numerous similar descriptive papers. The 

 following are the authors upon this and the other subjects named — 

 Dr. James C. Cox, F.L.S., Rev. J. Tenison- Woods, F.L.S., Prof. 

 Ralph Tate, James Hobson, Dr. R. B. Read, C. R. Rossiter, 

 Professor F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 



Ornithology. 



Mr. E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., George Masters, K. H. Bennett, 

 Prof. F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., Charles W. De Vis, B.A., Comte de 

 Castelnau. 



Botany. 



Rev. W. Woolls, Ph. D., F.L.S., F. M. Bailey, F.L.S., Rev. J. 

 E. Tenison- Woods, F.L.S., Edwin Haviland, Rev. C. Kalchbrenner, 

 Rev. B. Scortechini. L.L.B., Baron Ferd. von Miiller, C.M.G., 

 M.D., Ph. D., F.R.S., F.L.S., etc., Hon. James Norton, M.L.C., 

 K. H. Bennett, William Mitten, A.L.S., P. A. O'Shanesy, F.L.S. 



