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BOOKS, ^c. Purchased and Presented during 1878. 



[Presentations marked thus*.] 



•Aborigines, Australian, Language of. From Rev. P. M'Pherson, M.A. 



* , the Dyere Tribe of. From ditto. 



* , Vocabulaire des Dialectes. From ditto. 



Agricultural Gazette, The, current numbers. 

 Arts, Journal of Society of, ditto. 

 Athenaeum, The, ditto. 

 •Astronomical Observations, Edinburgh, 1870 to 1877, by C. Piazzi 



Smith, F.R.S., F.R A.S., &c. From the author. 

 •Astronomical and Meteorological Observations, Washington, 1874. From 



United States Government 

 * Agriculture, Dept. of, United States, Annual Report, 1875. From 



U.S. Government. 



• , d:tto, monthly ditto. 



•American Academy of Natural Sciences, Proceeding.s of, vol. 4, 1876-7. 



From the Academy. 

 • Philosophical Society, Proceedings of, vol. 16, So. 99. From 



the Society. 

 •Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Proceedings, 1877. 

 •Acta Horti Petropolitani, Tome 1, Fascic, 1. From the Imperial Botanic 



Gardens, St. Petersburg. 



•Birds, Australian, tabular list of, by E. P. Ramsay, F L.S. From the 

 author. 



Conchologia Iconica. Concluding parts. 

 *Conchology, Quarterly Jourual of, vol. 1, parts 12 and 13. From the 



publisher. 

 •Charities, PubUc, Report of Board, Pennsylvania, 1876. 

 •Catalogues, Briiish Museum : — 

 Birds, vol. 3. 

 British Hymenoptera, part 1. 



Fossil Crustacea. 



Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera, 



part 1 . 

 Fossil Reptilia of South Africa. From the trustees. 

 •Corals, On some extra-tropical, of Australia. By the Rev. J. E. Tenison 

 Woods, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., &c. &c. 



* Colonies, The, current numbers. 



•Catalogue des Hesperides du Musee Royale d'Histoire Naturelle de 



Bruxelles, by iM. P. Mabille. From the author. 

 •Canadian Journal, The, vol. 15, No. 5, April, 1877. 



•Engineers and Shipbuilders, Institution of, transactions of, vol. 20. From 

 the Institution. 



Florist and Pomologist, The, current numbers. 



Feathers, Stray, vol. 5, Nos. 5 and 6. 



Federation, Imperial, 1878, by F. Young. From the author. 



* Forest Tree Planting, and its influence on climate, by R. Schomburgh, 



Ph. D. From the author. 



* Forestry, Report on, 1877, by Rev. J. Croumbie Brown, LL.D. From 



the Colonial Secretary. 



