XXXIV. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



OF THE 



For the Year ending September 30th, 1880. 



The Council have pleasure in reporting that the work of the 

 Society has been carried on successfully during the past year, 

 the following papers having been laid before it :— " Red Rust," 

 by J. G. Otto Tepper, F.L.S. ; " The Medicinal Uses of Wattle 

 Bark," by S. J. Magarey, M.B. ; " The G-eographical Distribu- 

 tion of Plants in South Australia," by Professor Ralph Tate, 

 F.G.S., &c. ; "The Comet of February, 1880," by Charles Todd, 

 C.M.G., F.R.A.S., &c. ; " The Characteristics and Distribution 

 of the Native Plants of Torke's Peninsula," by J. G. Otto 

 Tepper, F.L.S. ; "Further Notes upon Australian Selenariadse," 

 by Rev. J. E. T. "Woods, F.L.S., &c. ; " Bay of Biscay Country," 

 by J. G. Otto Tepper, F.L.S. ; " Translation of Professor 

 Quatrefage's ' Craniologie des Races Austral iennes,' " by 

 Professor Ralph Tate, F.G-.S., &c. ; " Some Fossil Corals," by 

 Rev. J. E. T. Woods, F.L.S., &c. ; " A New South Australian 

 Belemnite," and " Some New South Australian Snails," by 

 Professor Ralph Tate, F.G.S., &c. ; "The Descriptive and 

 Economic Geology of the Munno Para Hills," by Gavin Scoular ; 

 "*■ A Monograph of the Tertiary Palliobranchs of Australia," 

 by Professor Ralph Tate, F.G.S., &e. ; "Native Plants of the 

 MacDonnell Ranges," by Rev. J. Kempe ; and " Diagnoses of 

 New Species of Plants from South Australia," by Baron F. von 

 Mueller, translated by S. Smeaton, B.A. 



A large number of interesting specimens of natural history 

 and other objects of interest have been exhibited and discussed 

 at the Society's meetings. The Governors of the South Aus- 

 tralian Institute have laid before the Society from time to time 

 a selection from the donations to the Museum received by 

 them, and private gentlemen have, to a greater extent than in 

 any previous year, contributed in a similar way to the interest 

 of the Society's meetings. In order to encourage and to assist 

 private research, and to place the information thus acquired 

 permanently upon record, the Society resolved early in the 

 session to establish local correspondents throughout the pro- 

 vince, and to obtain the services of competent referees in the 

 various branches of natural history. This scheme has been 

 fully matured by the Council, and the assent of the members 



