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1. On the Heavy Fall of Eain at Hobart Town on the 25th and 26th February, 



1854, with reference to the Sewerage and Drainage, &c., of the City. 



By His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison, F.E.S., &c. &c. &c 1 



2. On the Best Method of Eelaxing Dried Skins, &c. By "William Swainson, 



Esq., F.E.S. and L.S., &c 6 



3. On Tasmanian Statistics for the Decennial Period 1844 to 1853, &c. By 



James Barnard, Esq 9 



4. On the Characters of Asteh, a New Division in the Family of TrocJiince, or 



Trochiform Shells, &c. By William S w ainson, Esq. , F.E. S 36 



5. On the Characters of Amphibious Volutes allied to the genus Melampus, 



&c. By William Swainson, Esq., F.E.S 42 



6. On Australian Haliotidoe, or Ear-shells, &c. By William Swainson, Esq., 



F.E.S 46 



7. On the Encroachments of the Sea along the North Coast of Tasmania, &c. 



ByE. C. Gunn, Esq., F.R.S 54 



8. On Australian Entomostracans, &c. By the Eeverend E. L. King, B.A., 



Sydney 56 



9. On the Potato Grub of Tasmania. By Captain H. Berthon, H.E.I.C.S. ... 76 



10. On a Specimen of Shark in the Museum of the Eoyal Society of Van 



Diemen's Land. By A. Cross, Esq., E.N 81 



11. On the Trigonometrical Survey of Van Diemen's Land. By Major Cotton, 



H.E.I.C.S., Deputy Surveyor -General 82 



12. On the Combustible Schist of the Mersey Eiver, Tasmania. By Professor 



Penny, of the Andersonian University, Glasgow 108 . 



13. On the Geological Eelations of some of the Coal Seams of Van Diemen's 



Land, &c. &c. By Alfred E. C. Selwyn, Esq., Government Geologist, 

 Victoria , 116 



14. List of the Birds of Tasmania. By the Eeverend T. J. Ewing, of New 



Town , 142 



Proceedings at Monthly Evening Meetings , 156 



H. & C. Best, Printers, Daily Courier Office, Colfins-street, Hobart Town, 



