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Time of leafing, flowering, and fruiting of a few standard plants in 
the Royal Society’s Gardens during August, 1885 :— 
10th. Weeping willow commencing to break. 
12th. Silver wattle commencing to flower. 
14th. Common elm commencing to flower. 
15th. Common snowdrop in flower. 
20th. Sambucus Niger commencing to break. 
20th. Common oak commencing to break. 
24th. Lombardy poplar commencing to break. 
25th. Horse-chestnuts commencing to break. 
26th. Gooseberries commencing to break. 
30th. Royal apricot commencing to flower. 
METEOROLIGICAL RETURNS. 
From the Government Observer, Capt. Shortt, R.N.—Table of 
Observations for August. 
ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST. 
Agricultural Gazette, July 6, 13, 20. 
Annals and Magazines of Natural History, July. 
Atheneum, June. 
Australian Scientific Magazine, The. Vol. 1, No.1; August, 1885, 
Victoria—From the Editor. 
Birds and Mammals of Australia. By Gracius J. Broimowski.—From 
the Hon. W. J. Trickett, M.P., N.S. W. 
Catalogue of Canadian Plants, Pt. II., ‘‘Gamopetale.” By John 
Macoun, M.A.—From the Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, Canada. 
Descriptions of the stations. —From the Meteor. Office, India. 
Gardener’s Chronicle, June 11, 18, 25. 
Geological Magazine, July. 
Goldfields of Victoria, Reports of the Mining Registrars for the quarter 
ended 30th June, 1885.—From the Mines Department, Victoria. 
Journal of the Society of Arts, June 5, 12, 19, 26. 
Journal of Science, July. 
Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales for 
1884, Vol. XVIII.—From the Society. 
List of the specimens of Cetacea in the Zoological Department 
of the British Museum, by Henry Fowler, LL.D., London, 1885.— 
From the Trustees. 
Micro.—Chemical Observations on the Blood, in Health and in 
Typhoid Fever, by Thos. 8S. Ralph, M.R.C.S., Victoria—From the author. 
Monthly Weather Report of the Meteor. Office, London, for February, 
1885.—From the Meteorological Department. 
Nature, June. 
Nineteenth Annual Report on the Colonial Museum and Laboratory, 
together with a list of donations and deposits during 1883-84, and the 
Ffteenth Annual Report on the Colonial Botanic Gardens, New Zealand, 
1883-4.— From the Director. 
*© Open and Air Currents,” by Thos. D. Smellie, Glasgow, 1885. 
Provincial Medical Journal, vol. iv., No. 48, July, 1885, Leicester, 
Eng.—From the society. 
Publication der Norwegischen Commission der Kuropaishen 
Gradmessung, ‘‘ Geodatische Arbeiten,” heft 1V.—From the society. 
Report of Progress, with maps, 1882-4.—From the Geol. and Nat. 
Hist. Survey, Canada. 
Statistical Register of the Colony of Victoria for the year 1884, part 
II., population.—From the Government Statistician. 
Udgivet af den Norske Gradmaalingskommission Vanstandsobserva- 
tioner, heft JII., Christiania, 1S585.—From the scciety. 
Victorian Naturalist, vol. Il., No. 4, August.—From the society. 
