CONTENTS. 



Dr. J. Davies Thomas : Hydatid Disease in Australia 1 



D. B. Adamson: Improvements in the construction of Carre's Di- 

 electric Machine 27 



P. W. Andrews : Notes on the Night-Parrot {Geopsittacus occidentalis) 29 



Baron Sir F. von Mueller : Diagnoses of a new genus and two species of 



Compositae from South Australia . . . . 31 



Baron Sir F. von Mueller : Diagnosis of a New Genus of Verbenaceae 



from Arnheim Land .. .. .. .. .> .. ..33 



James Stirling : The Proteaceae of the Victorian Alps 35 



Dr. H. T, "Whittell: Notes of the Dissection of a Compound Ascidian 



found in St. Vincent Gulf (plate i.) . . 43 



Professor K. Tate : Descriptions of some of New Species of Squilla 



from South Australia (plate ii.) 48 



John Haslam : House Sanitation 54 



J. G. 0. Tepper : Botanical Notes relating to South Australia . . . . 65 



F. W. Andrews: Notes on some Bare Birds inhabiting South Australia 69 



T. C. Cloud : A Catalogue of South Australian Minerals 72 



Professor B. Tate : List of Plants unrecorded for Southern Eyre-Penin- 

 sula 94 



Professor R. Tate : A list of unrecorded Plants and of New Localities 

 for Eare Plants in the Soath-East ..95 



Professor R. Tate : List of some Plants inhabiting the North-Eastern 



part of the Lake Torrens Basin 100 



Baron Mueller and Professor Tate : Diagnoses of some New Plants from 



South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . 107 



Professor R. Tate: Additions to the Flora of South Australia .. ..110 



Professor R. Tate: The Botany of Kangaroo Island, with Historical 

 Sketch of its Discovery and Settlement, and Notes on its Geology 

 (plate iii.) 116 



