CONTENTS. 



VOLUME XXXII. 



Page. 



Officers foe, 1898-99 ... ... ... (vii.) 



List of Members, &c (ix.) 



Art. I. — President's Address. By Henry Deane, M.A., M. Inst. C.E. 1 



Art. II. — Aeronautics. By L. Hargrave ... ... 55 



Art. III. — Australian Divisional Systems. By E. H. Mathews, l.s. 66 



Art. IV. — Artesian Water in New South Wales. By J. W. Boultbee 88 



Art. V. — On the " Stringy bark " Trees of N. S. Wales, especially 



in regard to their Essential Oils. By E. T. Baker, f.l.s., 



Curator, and H. G. Smith, f.c.s., Technological Museum, 



Sydney . ■ 104 



Art. VI. — Current Observations on the Canadian-Australian 

 Eoute. By Capt. M. W. Campbell HepWorth, f. r. Met. soc, 

 f.r.a s., E.M.S. Aorangi. (Communicated by Mr. H. C. 



Eussell, B.A., C.M.G., f.r.s.) 120 



Art. VII. — Water-spouts on the Coast of New South Wales. By 



H. C. Eussell, b.a., cm. g., f.r.s. (Plates ii. - ix.) 132 



Art. VIII.— Some Physical Properties of Nickel Steel. By W. H. 

 Warren, wh. sc, m. inst. c.e., m. Am. soc. c.e., Challis Professor of 

 Engineering, and S. H. Barraclough, m.m.e., Assoc, m. inst. c.e., 

 Lecturer in Engineering, University of Sydney ... ... 150 



Art. IX. — Key to the Tribes and Genera of Melanospermese, 

 (Olive-Green Seaweeds). By Eichard A. Bastow, Fitzroy, 

 Victoria. (Communicated by J. H. Maiden, f.l.s.) (Plate i.) 169 

 Art. X. — Etude sur les Dialectes de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Par 



Julien Bernier. (Communicated by C. Hedley, f.l.s.) ... 173 

 Art. XI.— On the Pinenes of the Oils of the Genus Eucalyptus, 

 Part I. By Henry G. Smith, f.c.s., Technological Museum, 



Sydney 195 



Art. XII. — Soaring Machines. By L. Hargrave 209 



Art. XIII. — Native Vocabulary of Miscellaneous New South 

 Wales Objects. By Mr. Surveyor Larmer. (Communicated 

 by Professor T. P. Anderson Stuart, m.d., by permission of 



the Honourable the Secretary for Lands ... 223 



, , - Art. XIV.— Current Papers, No. 3. By H. C. Eussell, b.a., c.m.g. 



f.r.s. (Plates x., xi.) 230 



Art. XV. — The Group Divisions and Initiation Ceremonies of the 



Barkunjee Tribes. By E. H. Mathews, l s. (Plate xii.)... 241 



