Contents. xcv 



TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE 

 PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF VICTORIA, 1858. 



Vol. IIL 



Anniversary Address of the President, His Honour Sir William 

 Foster Stawell, Knt., Chief Justice of Victoria, 

 &c., &c. ... ... ... ... ... 1 — G 



Art. I. Some Facts determining the Rate of the U]>lieaval of the 

 South Coast of the Australian Continent, by Lldwjg 

 Beckek, Esq. ... ... ... ... ... 7 — 9 



II. On the lleclamatiou and Cultivation of Batman's Swamp, 

 by Alexander Kennedy Smith, Esq., C.E., 

 F.R.S.S.A., with a plate ... ... ... ... 9—18 



III. On the Hirudo Australis, by Joseph Bosisto, Esq., 



President of the Pharmaceutical Society, Melbourne ... 18 — 22 



IV. Diagnostic Notes on New or Imperfectly-known Austra- 



lian Plants, by Dr. Ferdinand Mueller ... ... 22—31 



V, On the Wen- Mallee (a Water-yielding Tree), the Bulrush 

 and Porcupine Grass of Australia, by John Cairns, 

 Esq. ... 32-35 



VI. A few Notes on Two Kmds of Australian Leeches, bj' 



Ludwio Becker, Esq., -with a jJate ... ■ ... .3G — 38 



VII. On an Australian Bat, No. I., by Lvdavic: Becker, Esq., 



with a plate ... ... ... ... ... 38—40 



VIII. Some hitherto Unknowoi Australian Plants, described bj'^ 



Dr. Ferdinand Mueller ... ... ... 40 — 03 



IX. Mr. J. T. riellibrand's Memoranda of a Trip to Port 

 Pliillip m 1S3G, addressed to His Excellency the Lieu- 

 tenant -Go venior, from a MS. Copy presented to the 

 Philosophical Institute of Victoria, by the Hon. 

 C.vptain Clarke, R.E. ... ... ... ... G.'?— 85 



X. Remarks on a Tertiary Deposit in South Australia, by 

 the Rev. Julian Edmund Woods, Pcnola, South 

 Australia ... ... ... ... ... 85—94 



XI. Description and .System of Workhig of the Flagstaff' 

 Observatory, Melbourne, by Profe.s,sor (Jeoroe Neu- 

 mayer, witli three plates ... ... ... ... 94 — 103 



XII. Some Facts Illustrative of the Meteorology of August, 

 1858, in the Southern Hemisj)here, by Pkofks,sor 

 Geoboe Neu.mavei:, with four ])lates ' ... ... 104—114 



