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other devoting itself to other questions in pure and applied 
science. 
The papers in the Magazine are not published in order 
of reading before either Society, and require some finding. 
This is probably the fault of wicked authors. TFollowing’is 
an abstract of the contents of the two volumes of the 
Magazine so far as the “Australian Horticultural and 
Agricultural Society ’’ is concerned, and it will be seen that 
there is no sharp line of demarcation between the papers 
read before this and the Philosophical Society. 
At Vol. I, p. 3, we have the Resolutions, Rules and By- 
laws, in connection with the establishment of the Society. 
On 20th January, 1857, the Society held its opening 
meeting with an address by the President (Governor Sir 
William Denison). It is printed at pp.4—7. At Vol. 1, 
p. 104, but under date 4th February, is another paper “On 
the Agricultural Statistics of New South Wales.”’ 
At p. 8 is reported the Fifth Monthly Meeting, held 2nd 
(sic) June 1857. A paper on “Native Plants, and the 
Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Resources of 
Australia,” (being No. 5 of a series on the same subject) 
was read by Mr. (T.) W. Shepherd at this meeting, but was 
not printed. (See an abstract in the “‘Australian Almanac’”’ 
for 1857, pp. 60—65. Mr. J. H. Blake read a paper on 
Australian Wines at the same meeting. This was printed 
at p.13 of the Magazine. At p. 18 is given a short paper 
on the ‘‘Chinese Yam or Dioscorea batatas’’ by Mr. John 
Gelding, read on ist (sic) June, 1857. At p. 23, a paper 
also read at the June meeting, “‘Observations on the 
extraction of the stumps of trees’”’ by Joseph Dyer, will be 
found. 
Bearing the date 3rd July, 1857, there is a paper ‘‘On 
the means best adapted in the present circumstances of 
the colony for imparting agricultural information,”’ by 
