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vatories, Toronto, Canada, "Reports for 1874," "Abstracts and results of 

 observations 1841 to 1874." From the Meteorological Office, London, 

 "Quarterly Weather Report, part 3, 1873," "Instructions in use of Me- 

 teorological Instruments, 1875." From Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, " Proceedings 1874, parts 1, 2, and 3." From the Rev. W. B. 

 Clarke, M.A., F.G.S., etc., " Remarks on the Sedimentary Formations of 

 New South Wales," and the " Address to the Royal Society of New South 

 Wales, 1875," by the donor. From the Exhibition Commissioners, Mel- 

 bourne, the " Official Catalogue of the Intercolonial Exhibition, 1875, 3rd 

 edition." 



Mr. M. Allport, in the absence of the hon. secretary, called attention to 

 the beautiful series of lithographs of the tertiary fossils from the north coast 

 of Tasmania, executed by Mrs. Meredith from her own original drawings, 

 and pointed out that the value of the Rev. Jidian Woods' paper on these 

 fossils was materially enhanced by the skilful work of the talented artist. 



The Rev. J. E. Tentson Woods in introducing his paper " On some 

 new and hitherto undescribed Shells of Tasmania," remarked that his list 

 though a large one for novelties, where so much had been done, might 

 require considerable augmentation. He had only dealt with the univalves 

 so far, and could hardly say even that he had thoroughly examined all 

 these. Some short time ago Mr. Legrand of Elizabeth-street, had invited 

 him to make a critical list of all the Australian Mollusca, offering for the 

 purpose to place at his disposal, his collection, which certainly was one of 

 the largest, if not the largest in the colonies. Such a list for all Australia, 

 though a great desideratum, was far beyond the Kmits of the time which he 

 (Mr. Tenison Woods) could give to it. He had offered, however, to make 

 such a list for Tasmania only, that is : — 1st. To establish the nomenclature 

 of such species as were described, and give leading references to the works 

 containing them. 2nd. To give briefly the characters of all the shells. 

 3rd. To describe for scientific purposes such as were new. The first result 

 of this enqmry had been a monograph on the Freshwater Mollusca which 

 would appear in that year's Transactions of the Society. After about three 

 months' labour he had gone through the collections of Mr. Legrand, besides 

 small collections of Mr. Justin Browne, Mr. Stephens and others, and the 

 present list of over 70 vmivalves new to science was the first result of the 

 examination. He did not doubt that the number would yet be inci'eased, 

 and therefore he would request the Council of the Society not to print the 

 present pai:>er in the Transactions of the current year, not only that he 

 might have an opportunity of making it more complete, but in order that 

 it might appear side by side with the complete catalogue which he hoped 

 to have ready for the March meeting. He asked permission of His Excel- 

 lency and the members to express at the same time his many obligations 

 to Mr. Legrand in preparing the list, not only because that indefatigable 

 collector had placed his specimens at his disposal, but also because he had 

 spared no pains in the examination of references, besides bringing his own 

 valuable experience and local knowledge to bear on the matter. He 

 thought that Mr. Legrand should justly share with him whatever credit 

 there was due for their scientific inquiries. Mr. Woods then went on to 

 point out what had been done for Australian conchology, and passed in 

 review the labours of Linneus, Lamarck, Quoy, Gaimard, Deshayes, Crosse, 

 G. Angas, Dr. Cox, and A. Adams. He .showed that though no separate 

 list of Tasmanian Mollusca had been published, yet Mr. G. F. Angas's list 

 for South Australia, and the far more elaborate list for S.E. Australia in 

 the Zoological Proceedings for 1865 and 1867 respectively, had materially 

 lightened the labours of any natm-alist for Tasmania. He then described 

 the boundaries and peculiarities of the so-called Australian molluscous 

 province, and showed how it might be divided into sub-provinces which 



