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president’s address. 
Three parts of our Thirteenth Annual Volume, the Third of 
the Second series have already been presented to members, while 
the Fourth Part is well in advance. I propose, therefore, as on 
former occasions, to lay before you a compendious account of the 
articles contained in its voluminous pages, together with an 
analysis of their subjects, under each head of which are appended 
references to the most important papers of a similar nature which 
have appeared in the Proceedings of the other Learned Societies 
of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, or elsewhere. 
Of these Proceedings we have received copies up to the last 
numbers quoted below, viz : — 
Royal Society of New South "Wales, Vols. xxi., xxii.. Part 1. 
Royal Society of Tasmania, 1887. 
Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. xxiv. 
Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. x. 
Royal Society of Queensland, Vols. iv. v.. Parts 1-3 
Institute of New Zealand, none since 1886. 
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. 
New South Wales Branch, Vols. iii. and iv. 
Victoria Branch, none. 
Queensland Branch, Vol. iii.. Part 1. 
The work of the Society for the past year has been carried on 
by the following Members, viz. : — 
C. W. De Vis, M.A., who has contributed two papers, (1) On 
a Post Pliocene Hypsiprymnodont Marsupial, and (2) On the Post 
Pliocene Avifauna of Queensland. 5 Plates. 
Dr. E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., <kc., and J. Douglas Ogilby, 
F.L.S. (in conjunction). — Three papers upon new species of Fishes. 
Frederick A. Skuse. — Five original, comprehensive, and 
elaborate monographs upon Australian Diptera, viz. ; (1) The 
Cecidomyidse, (2) The Sciaridae, (3) The Mycetophilidae, (4) The 
SimuHdae and Bibionidae, and (5) The Culicidae. 5 Plates, pp. 
128-1-69-1-99-1-24 4-48. 
