C N T E N T S 



LIST OF OFFICE-BEARERS & PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES. 



Office-Bearers, 1865 

 President's Address, 1865 

 Office-Bear.ris, 1866 ... 

 President's Address, 1866 



TRANSACTIONS, 1865. 



Art. I. Victoria as a Field for Geologists, by TnoiiAS 

 Harrison, Esq 



II. On the Probable Erosion of the Mountain Ranges of 



Gipps Land, by Thomas E. Rawlinso:??, Esq., C.E. ... 



HI, On the Skeleton of the Gorilla, by George B. 



Halford, ^I D., Professor of Anatomy, Melbourne 



University 



IV. On the Discovery of Cretaceous Fossils in Australia, 

 by Frederick M'Coy, Professor of Natural Science 

 in the University of Melbourne, Government Pale- 

 ontologist, and Director of the National Museum of 



Victoria, &c. ... 



V. On the Desirability of Establishing the Geographical 

 and Ethnographical Section under Law 60, by 

 Thomas E. Rawlinson, Esq., C.E 



VI. Probable Astronomical Causes of the Contortions in 

 Palasozoic Strata, and the prevailing Meridianal 

 Strike of the Older Rocks of Victoria, by Thojias 



Harrison, Esq 



VII. A Report on the Results of an Exhibition of Gems, 

 both Victorian and Foreign, and Works in the 

 Jeweller's Art, in both Gold and Silver, held in the 

 Hall of the Royal Society of Victoria during the 

 week ending the 6th May, 1865, drawn and presented 

 to the Royal Society by the Rev. J. J, Bleasdale, 

 the President for the current year, 1865 



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