424 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
Papers—(r1) ‘‘ On the Coal Flora of Australia,” by the Rev. J. 
E. Tenison-Woods, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. This was a complete 
monograph of all the known fossil coal plants, including the new 
species recently discovered by the author. A diagnosis of each 
genus and species was given, together with a history of the subject 
and its literature. The author also added his own views with 
reference to the classification, in which he regards some of the 
Newcastle beds as Permian, some as Trias, and the Ipswich beds 
(Queensland), the Victorian carbonaceous (Bellerine, Cape Otway, 
Apollo Bay, Colac and the Wannon), Tasmanian (Jerusalem) and 
the Hawkesbury sandstone as Jurassic or Lower Oolite. He ex- 
presses a doubt whether the Wianamatta beds can be regarded as 
a distinct formation, his own opinion being that they are shales 
distributed at various levels all through the Hawkesbury sand- 
stone. The new species of plants described are—Phyllotheca con- 
cinna, Equisetum votiferum. Vertebvaria tivoliensis, V. towarvensis, Sphenop- 
tevis (Aneimoides) flabellifolia, S. (A.) f. var. evecta, Trichomanides 
laxum, T. spinifolium, Thinnfeldia media, T. austvalis, T. falcata, Alethop- 
tevis curvant, Teniopteris carvvutherst, Gleichema (?) lineata, Feanpaulia 
bidens, Ptilophyllum oligonerum, Brachyphyllum crassum (which the 
author thinks may be a variety of B.! manidare), Sequoutes australis, 
Walchia milneana, Cunninghamites australis. Besides these new species 
the following Indian or European fossils are new to Australia— 
Podozomites lanceolatus, Lindley and Hutton; Mevianopsis major, Feist ; 
Angioptertdium ensis, Oldham. The monograph is meant to be a 
complete reference for students on the subject of Australian coal 
fossils, and is illustrated by six plates of heliographs and two of 
lithographs. The author exhibited some of the Coal Fossils 
described in his paper, namely, Sphenopteris cvebva, Phyllotheca con- 
cinna, and Taxites media. Also a specimen of Sagenopteris rhotfolia, 
the second found in Australia, from the Oolitic plant beds, Darling 
Downs, Queensland. 
(2) “Further contributions to the Flora of Queensland,” by 
the Rev. B. Scortechini, F.L.S. This paper contains an account 
of plants collected by the author in the neighbourhood of Stan- 
thorpe, all ot which are new to the Flora of Queensland; one, a 
variety of Grevillia ilicifolia, which Baron v. Mueller was at first in- 
clined to consider a distinct species, and a new species of Bossiea, 
B. Scortechini, F. v. M. 
(3.) “ Descriptions of two new Fungi,” by the Rev. Carl Kalch- 
brenner. The species described are Polyporus pentzhei and Paxillus 
hivtulus, both from the Daintree River, Queensland. 
(4) “Notes on the Fructification of the Bunya Bunya in 
Sydney,” by the Hon. James Norton, M.L.C. The author 
observes that the fertilised seeds require at least eighteen months 
to come to perfection; and he further notes that Pinus insignis is 
now producing cones freely, which are fertile, although no male 
catkins have as yet, he believes, been produced. The ovules may 
probably have been fertilised by pollen from some allied species. 
(5) ‘* Description of some new Fishes from Port Jackson,” by 
E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S. In this paper Mr. Ramsay describes a — 
species of Sauvida (Saurida ferox), also new species of Genyoroge and — 
Percis. 
(6) The President read some ‘“ Notes on the Tuena Gold- — 
Reefs,” by M. F. Rate, Mining Engineer. The author gives a 
