Index. 



357 



Manganese, 126 

 Manila Elemi, 14 

 Marcia strigota, 230 

 McLennan, Ethel, 253 

 Meander belts, 327 

 Mechanical equivalent of heat, 

 method of determining, 148 



apparatus for, 149 



operation of, 151 

 Megascolex fletcheri, 303 



anatomy of. 304, 305 



gland of, 309 

 Melaphyres, 97, 98 

 Messmate, seasoning of, 351 



shrinkage of, 353 

 Metaformaldehyde, action of alkali 



on, 182 

 Metamorphic rocks, 34 

 Microcala filiformis, 200 

 Microcyl)e pauciflora. 200 



multiflora, 200-201 



albiflora, 201 

 Mitra pica, 231 

 Monograptus, 55 

 Montivaltia, 233 

 Moreton Bay Fig, effect of ringing 



on, 195 

 Mountain ash shrinkage of, 353 

 Mt. Tara goldfield, 110 

 Mt. Terang, 8, 9 



Mt. Wellington, Geology of, 67-146 

 Miicor Rouxianus, 280 

 Muraltia Heisteria, 201 

 Myosotis australis, 201 

 Natica substolida, var. qrandis, 239 

 Nautilus, 242 



Nephridia, of Megascolex, 306, 307 

 Nemagraptiis gracilis, 85 

 Newer basalt, 345 

 Newtoniellia, 24') 

 Nitrogen fixation, tests of. in Lolium 



perenne, 286-291 

 Non-reducing sugar, production of, 



in polymerisation, 179 

 Nothoscordum fragrans, 201 

 Nowa Nowa, 105 



map of, 107, 140 



geology of, 67-146 



map of, 70 

 Noyangose, 121 

 Ooldea, fossils of, 225 



sketch map of, 227 

 Orbicella, 226 



Orbicella tasmaniensis, 233 

 Orbitolites complanata 228. 232 

 Orthis platystrophioides, 83 

 Ostracod and shell marl, 24 

 Ostrea, 244 



Oxalis purpurata, 202 

 Palaeozoic earth basins, 132 



history, 129 

 Palaeozoic Geolog-y, 67-146 



rocks, upper, 60 



sediments, 328 

 Panicum parviflorum, 202 



Paraformaldehyde, 170, 171 



action of alkali on, 183 

 Paterson's Curse, 194 

 Patton, R. T., 351 

 Pejark Marsh, volcanic tuff of, 1, 3 seq. 

 Phebalium obcordatum, 202 

 Phibalomyia, 164, 165 

 Phormium tenax, 203 

 Phosphate deposits, 57 

 Photosynthesis, nature of changes in, 



187, 188 

 Pinfelea flava, 202 

 Pinna inermis, 229 

 Platotrochus deltoideus, 232 

 Plagianthns monoica, 203 

 Po'lyhydrate of form aid ehyde, ao- 

 tioin of alkali on, 183 



thermic changes during, 184, 185 

 Polymerization ratios of formalde- 

 hyde, 172 



investigation of. 173 



for calcium. 174-6 



for strontium, barium, magne- 

 sium, 177 



for potassium, 178 

 Polymers of formaldehyde, action of 



alkalies on, 180-185 

 Polypogon littoralis, 203 

 Porphyritic rocks, 118, 125 

 I'orphyroids, 114 

 Protospongia, 55, 59, 64 

 Pseudotabanuis queenslandi, 165 

 Ptychoparia minima, 83 



'thielei, 83 

 Pultenaea. 210 



aciphyllum, sect., 217 



euchilus sect., 217 



euphultenaea sect., 212 



coelophyllum sect., 219 



acuminata, 218 



altissima, 219 



aristata, 222 



Baeuerleni, 222 



Benthami, 214 



biloba, 217 



calycina, 218 



Gampbelli, 222 



capitellata. 213 



cinerasoens, 215 



oonferta, 216 



cymbifolia, 218 



daphnoides. 212 



densifolia, 222 ■> 



dentata, 221 



Drummomdii. 216 



elliptica, 223 



euchila, 221 



flexilis, 219 



glabra, 220 



Gvmnii, 215 



Hartmanni, 216 



incurvata, 221 



largiflorens, 223 



Luehmanni, 218 • 



Maidenii, 212 



