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lichens, mosses, and fungi, as exploration advances and new 

 districts are open to the botanical examination. In such a 

 list Baron von Mueller has still before him a'n immense 

 amount of research in tracing out the geographical and 

 geological distribution, and other important facts connected 

 v with the botany of our southern continent. Most valuable 

 and important additions to the botanical collection have 

 recently been made by Mr. Alexander Forrest's expedition 

 to Port Darwin, which has opened up a hitherto botanically 

 unknown region, a portion of which, however, was partially 

 examined by our Government botanist in 1851 and 1856. 

 The baron informs me that he has the second part of the 

 school Flora of Australia nearly ready for publication. His 

 work on select plants for industrial culture and naturalisa- 

 tion has appeared this year in an enlarged edition for the 

 use of India, and published with the concurrence of the 

 Victorian Government, at the cost of the central Govern- 

 ment. He is making good progress with the Atlas of the 

 Eucalypti, to which I referred in my last year's address. 

 Already six parts, containing 60 species, elucidated by 66 

 quarto plates, have passed through the press. 



To students in botanical science, and lovers of plants and 

 flowers, our Botanical Gardens cannot fail to be an attractive 

 resort, and the energetic curator, Mr. Guilfoyle, loses no 

 opportunity, while giving full scope to his skill in landscape 

 gardening, and so making the gardens a favourite pleasure- 

 ground for the people, to supply to a great extent the more 

 scientific requirements of such a place by the grouping 

 together in beds and clumps allied families of plants, and 

 by utilising the low and shaded parts for ferns and other 

 classes requiring warmth and shade, so that they can be 

 studied here almost as well as in their native habitats. The 

 National Museum of Natural History in the University 

 grounds, under the directorship of Professor M'Coy, con- 

 tinues to increase its collections, and during the past year 

 the additions have been made principally in the mollusca, 



