DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TILIACEOUS TREUP. 141 
‘Report of the Board of Trustees of the Queensland Museum 
for 1884.” Brisbane. From the Curator. 
‘‘Map showing the site of Melbourne in 1837.” From the 
Public Library, Melbourne. 
The following papers were read :— 
PRACTICAL HYBRIDIZATION, 
BY 
JAMES PINK, Hsq., F.R.H.S. 
In this paper the author remarked generally on the important 
practical results consequent on the “hybridization” of plants, 
and especially fruit-bearing ones. He indicated the vine and 
orange as suggestive of the direction in which experiments of 
this class might be conducted with most advantage to the 
colony. In the case of vines he would recommend the Bowood 
Muscat and the Syrian, and in that of oranges the Navel and 
Paramatta, as objects between which hybridisation might be 
advantageously effected. He then dwelt at some length on the 
practical aspect of the process as far as the vine and orange 
were concerned. 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TILIACEOUS 
TREE FROM NORTH-EASTERN AUS- 
TRALIA. 
BARON VON MUELLER, K.C.M.G., M. & Pu. D. F.RS. 
AmonG the Queensland timber samples procured by Dr. Bancroft, 
jun., with such praiseworthy zeal for the Indian and Colonial 
Exhibition, soon to be held in London, occurs also the wood of 
the following tiliaceous tree, concerning which I have been 
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