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Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Series II., Vol. 6, Pt. 

 2, April, 1886.— From the Society. 



Journal of the Society of Arts, April. 



List of Members of the Geological Society of Australia ; also a set 

 of works in the Library of the Society. — From the Society. 



Memoires de la Societe Royala des Sciences de Liege, Deuxieme Serie, 

 Tome XI.— From the Society. 



Meteorologische Beobachtungen ausgefuhrt am Meteorologischen 

 Observatorium der Landwirthschaftlichen Akademie. — From the 

 Society. 



Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XLVI. 

 No. 6. April, 1886.— From the Society. 



Nature, April. Vol. XXXIII. 1886. Occasional papers on the 

 Queensland Flora. By F. M. Bailey, F.L.S.— From the author. 



On the Flexure of Meridian Instruments and the means available 

 for eliminating its effects from star places. By Win. Harkness. — From 

 the author. 



Proceedings of the Linnean Society of N.S. Wales, second series, 

 Vol. I, Pt. 1.— From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, Toronto, third series. Vol. 

 HI. Fas. No. 3. February, 1886.— From the Society. 



Records of the Geological Survey of India. Vol. XIX. Pt. 2. 1886.— 

 From the Society. 



Report of the second ordinary meeting of the Queensland branch of 

 the Geographical Society of Australasia. March, 18S6. — From the 

 Society. 



Report of the Technological Industrial and Sanitary Museum, Sydney, 

 N.S.W. 1885.— From the Trustees. 



Report on the progress and condition of the Botanic Gardens and 

 Government plantations, Adelaide, dnring the year 1885. — From the 

 Director. 



Report of the Mining Register for the quarter ended 31st March, 

 1886, " The Goldfields of Victoria." — From the Department. 



Statistics of the colony of New Zealand for the year 1885. Part III. 

 Trade and Interchange. — From the Government. 



Societie de Geographie, No. 7, 8 — From the Society. 



Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, New series. Vol. 

 III., Part II, —From the Society. 



Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of 

 South Australia. Vol. VIII. for 1SS4-5.— From the Society. 



Victorian Naturalist. Vol. III., Nos. 1, 2, May and June, 1886. 

 —From the Society. 



PAPERS. 



"Collection, Observation, and Identification of Mosses," by Mr. R.A. 

 Bastow, F.L.S.— 



The most favourable collecting grounds around the city of Jfobart 

 were mentioned, with the species most likely to be met with in 

 those localities. Ths summit of Mount Wellington, the Ploughed 

 Fields, the Springs, the Falls, St. Crispin's Well, Macrobie's Gully, 

 Mount Rumney, and Kangaroo Point, were severally noticed. The 

 wanner of identification of the Genera by means of an illustrated 

 key prepared by Mr. Bastow was made clear by an example. This 

 key has been prepared specially as an introduction to the study of 

 Tasmanian mosses, and is a new feature in the introductory portion 

 of bryology. The Tasmanian mosses are the first in the botanical world 

 to have been thus diagramatically arranged, so that the student may 

 have all the genera before him on one sheet, so bracketed and arranged, 

 that he can almost at once find out the genus of the specimen in hand. 

 One species of each genus is represented, in its natural size, and as 



