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Catalogue of Australian Land Sheila, by J. C. Cox, M.D. Catalogue 

 of Minerals and Rocks in the Australian Museum, by Gerard Krefft 

 Exchange list of Land and Marine Shells fiom Australia and the 

 adjacent islands. By J. C. Cox, M.D.-— From J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 



Geological Magazine, August. 



Imperial Federation, August. — From the Editor. 



Journal of the Society of Arts, July. 



Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. Ser. II., Vol. VI., Pt. 

 % August. 



List of the Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum, Pt. 

 II, Olividse By J. G. Gray.— From J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 



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

 No. 8, June.— From the Society. 



Nature, July. 

 _ " Note on an experiment by Chladni." " On the Bleaching of Iodide 

 ot Starch by means of Heat."— By Chas. Tomlinson, F.R.S. 



Proceedings of the Queensland Branch of the Geographical Society of 

 Australasia, 1st session, 1885 6. Vol. I.— Prom the Society. 



Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, or figures and descriptions of 

 the living species of all classes of the Victorian Indigenous Animals 

 Decade XII., by Prof. F. McCoy, F.R.S.— From the Society. 



Records of the Geological Suivey of India, vol. xix., part 3.— From 

 the Society. 



Remarks on a new theory of Dew, by Chas. Tomlinson, F.R.S. 



Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alex- 

 ander Agassiz in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-80), and in the Carribbean 

 Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast survey steamer Blake, xxviii. 



Description of 13 species and two genera of Fishes from the Blake 

 collection, by G. Brown Goode, and Tarleton H. Bean, vol. xii., No. 5. 

 From Alexander Agassiz. 



Reports of the Mining Registrars for the quarter ended 30th June, 

 1886. — From the Government, 



Socidte de Geographie, No. 14, 15, 1886.— From the Society. 

 Statistical Register of the Colony of Victoria for the year 18S5, Pt. 

 IV.— "Vital Statistics."— From the Department. 



Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, Vol. I. pt. 

 (Victoria). — From the Society. 



Victorian Naturalist, Vol. III., No. 5, September.— From the Society. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The Chairman stated that the name of Hon. James Smith, M.L.C., 

 would be submitted for election at next meeting. Mr. Smith had 

 received the distinction of being made a member when Sir Henry Lefroy 

 Was president, but had some scruples about accepting the position, which 

 had since been removed. He thought it would be a great pleasure on 

 the p art f t h e fellows to do honour to the discoverer of Mount 

 ISischoff. 



PAPERS. 



Mr. R. M. Johnston, F.L.S.,read a paper, entitled— "Fresh contribu- 

 tion to our knowledge of the Plants of Mesozoic Age in Tasmania." Mr. 

 Johnston, in opening his paper, stated that "certain beds of grey 

 ?nales have recently been exposed at Lord's Hill, New Town, by Mr. 

 -Uorman, builder, who kindly afforded me every facility for their 

 examination. These beds are intimately associated with the beds 

 containing the coal seams at New Town, and as they were full of impres- 

 sions of plant remains, I spent a considerable time in making collec- 

 tions and in thoroughly examining the numerous forms. The results 

 7 I e ii sur P assed m y utmost expectation, for in the following pages 

 * shall be able to show that about 15 forms of great interest, new to- 



