CONTENTS. 



Anniversary Address of the President, His Honor Sir 

 William Foster Stawell, Knt., Chief Justice of 

 Victoria, &c, &c. ... ... ... ... 1 — 6 



Art. I. Some Facts determining the rate of the Upheaval of the 

 South Coast of the Australian Continent, by Ludwig 

 Becker, Esq. ... ... ... ... ... 7 — 9 



II. On the Reclamation and Cultivation of Batman's Swamp, 

 by Alexander Kennedy Smith, Esq., C.E., 

 F.E.S.S.A., with a plate ... ... ... 9—18 



III. On the Hirudo Australis, by Jos. Bosisto, Esq., President 



of the Pharmaceutical Society, Melbourne ... ... 18 — 22 



IV. Diagnostic Notes on New or Imperfectly known Austra- 



lian Plants, by Dr. Ferdinand Mueller ... 22 — 31 



V. On the Weir Mallee (a Water-yielding Tree), the Bulrush 

 and Porcupine Grass of Australia, by John Cairns, 

 Esq. ... ... ... ... 32—35 



VI. A few Notes on Two Kinds of Australian Leeches, by 



Ludwig Becker, Esq., with a plate ... ... 36 — 38 



VII. On an Australian Bat, No. I, by Ludwig Becker, Esq., 



with a plate ... ... ... ... ... 38 — 40 



VIII. Some hitherto Unknown Australian Plants, described by 



Dr. Ferdinand Mueller ... ... ... 40 — 63 



IX. Mr. J. T. Gellibrand's Memoranda of a Trip to Port 

 Phillip in 1836, addressed to His Excellency the Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, from a MS. Copy presented to the 

 Philosophical Institute of Victoria, by the Hon. Cap- 

 tain Clarke, R.E. ... ... ... ... 63 — 85 



X. Remarks on a Tertiary Deposit in South Australia, by 

 the Rev. Julian Edmund Woods, Penola, South 

 Australia ... ... ... ... ... 85 — 94 



XL Description and System of Working of the Flagstaff 

 Observatory, Melbourne, by Professor George Neu- 

 mayee, with three plates ... ... ... 94 — 103 



