MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 273 
terms of the value of the method recommended by Mr Chard. 
Sydney, 6th. Sept.—Mr Rolleston, C.M.G., President, in the 
chair. 
New members—Messrs. Alex. L. Cameron, Geo. N. Conlan, 
Geo. |. Renwick, B.A., M.B:, Rev. J.T: RobertsonjeM.A.; Geo. 
E. Twynam. 
The following resolution was unanimously adopted :—“ The 
members of the Royal Society of New South Wales, having heard 
with deep regret of the death of Charles Robert Darwin, one of 
their most distinguished honorary members, desire to express their 
sense of the loss which the whole scientific world has sustained, 
and -they desire that their heart-felt expression of condolence 
should be expressed through their president to the widow of the 
late distinguished naturalist,” 
The President then delivered an extremely interesting address 
entitled ‘‘ Notes on the vrogress of New South Wales during the 
years 1872 to 1881.’ 
(The full report of this valuable paper will be found in the 
columns of the Sydney Morning Herald of gth September.) 
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LINNEAN. SOCIETY—-OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Sydney, 30th. Aug.—Dr. James C. Cox. F.L.S., etc., President, 
in the chair. 
Papers—(1.) ‘‘ Botanical Notes on Queensland, No. 4,” by the 
Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F.G.S., &c. This paper contained the 
author’s observations on some of the Queensland species of 
Myrtacee, chiefly of the Eucalypti. 
(2) “On a Coal Plant trom Queensland,” by the Rev. {&. 
Tenison-Woods, F.L.S., etc. This is anaccount of a fossil species 
of Eguisetum found in the Ipswich coal beds, and provisionally 
named E. votiferwm, from the wheel-like shape of the diaphragm. 
No Egquisetum has previously been found in the Australian coal 
beds. 
(3.) ‘“‘ Observations on an insect injurious to the Vine,” by 
William Macleay, F.L.S., etc. In this paper Mr. Macleay gives 
some details of the habits, ‘etc., of a beetle (Orthorhinus Klugit), the 
larva of which had committed great injuries amongst the vines in 
Mr. Holroyd’s orchard, near Parramatta. Some hints are also 
given as to the best means of limiting their devastations. Speci- 
mens were shewn; also specimens ofa beetle, a true borer of 
family Scolytide, which has completely destroyed during the past 
season all the figtrees in a large orchard in the county of Cumber- 
land. Mr. Macleay pointed out that while the first of these cases 
was an instance of injury caused by an indigenous insect to an in- 
troduced plant, the other was, he feared, an instance of the intro- 
duction to the country of a foreign species belonging to the most 
destructive family of Xylophagous beetles. He thought that at 
the next meeting of the Society, he would be enabled to give some 
more definite information on the subject. 
Mr. K. H. Bennett exhibited a nest of three eggs of the ground 
graucalus (Pleropodocys phasianella). The nest is remarkable for its 
size and compactness; usually the birds build but a scanty 
