rRANSACTIONS 



IJjjilosopjjttal Sorieiir of Wxthxfa, 



Including the Papers and Proceedings of the 

 Society. 



VOL. I.— 8vo, pp. 290,— with Plates and Plans, Price ONE GUINEA. 



CONTENTS 



Capt. Clarke's Inaugural Address. 



Dr. Mueller on Rare and Undescribed Australian Plants. 



Mr. R. B. Smyth on the Value and Durability of Building Materials. 



Mr. Blandowski's Excursion towards the Central Parts of Victoria. 



Mr. C. Hodgkinson's Rules and Tables of Railway Earthworks. 



Dr. Davey on the Construction of an Instrument for Ascertaining 



the Mean Temperature. 

 Mr. Becker's Meteorological Observations at Bendigo. 

 Mr. B. Stewart on the Influence of Gravity on the Physical Con- 

 dition of the Moon's Surface. 

 Mr. B. Stewart on the Adaptation of the Eye to the Nature of 



Rays. 

 Dr. Mueller's Descriptive Characters of New Alpine Plants in 



Australia. 

 Dr. Wilkie on the Failure of the Yan Yean Reservoir. 

 Dr. Davey on the Meteorology of Melbourne. 

 Mr. C. Hodgkinson on Evaporation of the Yan Yean Reservoir. 

 Messrs. Acheson & Christy's Report on the Yan Yean. 

 Mr. R. B. Smyth on the Influence of the Physical Character of a. 



Country on the Climate. 

 Mr Blandowski's Description of Eossil Animalcuke in Primitive 



Rocks. 

 Mr. C. Hodgkinson's Practical Remarks on Hydrometry. 

 Mr. Blandowski on the Primary Upheaval of the Land round 



Melbourne. 

 Dr. Wilkie on the Water Supply of Melbourne. 

 Mr. C. Hodgkinson's Remarks on the Geological and Chemical 



Nature of the Primary Rocks of Victoria. , 



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