TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILO- 

 SOPHICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA, 1855. 



I. Inaugural Address of the President, Captain Clarke, 



R.E., Surveyor General, &c, &c. ... ... ... 1 



II. Definitions of rare, or hitherto imdescribed, Australian 

 Plants, collected within the boundaries of the Colony 

 and examined by Dr. Ferdinand Mueller ... 5 



III. On the comparative Value and Durability of the Build- 

 ing Materials in use in Melbourne, by Robert Brough 

 Smyth, Esq. ... ... ... ... ... 24 



IV. Definitions of rare, or hitherto imdescribed, Australian 

 Plants, collected within the boundaries of the Colony 

 of Victoria, and examined by Dr. Ferdinand Muel- 

 ler (continued)... ... ... ... ... 34 



V. Personal observations made in an excursion towards the 

 central parts of Victoria, including Mount Macedon, 

 Mclvor, and the Black Ranges, by Wm. Blan- 

 dowski, Esq. ... ... ... ... ... 50 



VI. Original Rides and Tables, adapted to cases of Sidelong 

 Ground in the Setting-out and Computation of Rail- 

 way Earthworks, by Clement Hodgkinson, Esq., 

 C.E., Survey Department ... ... ... 74 



VII. On the Construction of an Instrument for Ascertaining 



the mean Temperature of any place, by Dr. Darcy... 85 



VIII. Meteorological Observations at Bendigo, by Ludwig 



Becker, Esq., with a plate ... ... ... 87 



IX. On the Influence of Gravity on the Physical condition of 

 the Moon's surface, by Balfour Stewart, Esq., with 

 a plate ... ... ... ... ... 92 



X. On the Adaption of the Eye to the nature of the Rays 



which emanate from bodies, by Balfour Stewart, 



Esq. ... ... ... .. ... ... 95 



XI. Descriptive Characters of new Alpine Plants, from Con- 



tinental Australia, by Dr. Ferdinand Mueller ... 96 



XII. On the Failure of the Yan Yean Reservoir, embracing 

 an examination of the Report of the Committee on the 

 Yan Yean Scheme, by David E. Wilkie, Esq., M.D. Ill 



XIII. The Meteorology of Melbourne, by Dr. E. Darcy ... 164 



