1798 
president's address. 
C(ELENTERATA AND PORIFERA. 
1. New and rare Hydroida in the Australian Museum. W. M. 
Bale, 745. PI. xii.-xxi. 
Note. — Vol. xxiii. of the “Challenger” Reports contains the 
completion of Professor Allman’s monograph on the Hy- 
droida. 
Vol. XXIV. is occupied by the Report on the Tetractinellid 
Sponges, by Professor Sollas. 
Miscellaneous. 
1. Bacterioscopical Examination of Sydney Ice. O. Katz, 256. 
2. On the Venom of Australian Snakes, 400. 
3. On the Cattanach Disinfectant, 727. 
4. On Simple Striated Muscular Fibres. W. A. Haswell, 1704. 
On a Method of Preparing Blastoderms of the Fowl, 1712. 
5. Note on Living Specimens of Feri'patus Leuckarti. J. J. 
Fletcher, 892, 1508. ‘ 
II. Botany. 
1. Ptilotus Macleayi, n.sp., and Acacia sjiodiosperma, n.sp., from 
W. Australia. F. v. Mueller, 162. 
2. Flowering Seasons of Australian Plants, No. viil. E. Havi- 
land, 267. 
3. Notes on Jussicea repens, &c W. Woolls, 357. Lemnaceae, 
1247. Australian Sapindaceae, 1270. 
4. Medicinal Plants of N.S.W. J. H. Maiden, 355. Food Plants 
of Australia, 481. Synonymy of Ficus scahra, 1314. 
5. On the Destruction of Fish in the National Park by a species 
of Saproleynia. J. D. Ogilby, 890. 
6. List of Plants from N.W. Australia, collected by \V. W. 
Froggatt. J. J. Fletcher, 1256. 
Royal Society of N.S. Wales. Vol. xxi. 
1. On some N.S.W. Tan-substances. J. H. Maiden, F.R.G.S. 
2. The Influence of Bush Fires in the Distribution of Species. 
Rev. R. Collie, F.L.S. 
