O u&y 



Vol. XXIV. 



1800. 



Part I. 



JOURNAL & PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY 



OF 



NEW SOUTH WALES, 



EDITED BY 



THE HONORARY SECRETARIES. 



COZtTTZEasTTS. 



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Anniversary Address. By Prof. A. Liversidge, m.a., f.r.s., &c 1 



On a Compressed-air Flying-machine. By L. Hargrave, [Three Diagrams] ... 52 



On the treatment of Slips on the Illawarra Railway at Stanwell Park. By 



Walter Shellshear, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E. [One Diagram] 58 



Native names of some of the Runs &c, in the Lachlan District. By F. B. W. 



Woolrych, l.s., communicated by John F. Mann, l.s 63 



Remarks on a new Plant rich in Tannin. By Charles Moore, F. L.S. 71 



Record of hitherto undescribed plants from Arnheim's Land. By Baron Fer- 

 dinand von Mueller, k.c.m.ck, m. and ph.d., f.r.s., &c 73, 128, 174 



The Theory of the repetition of Angular Measures with Theodolites. By G. H. 



Knibbs, l.s 87 



On some Photographs of the Milky-way, recently taken at the Sydney Observa- 

 tory. By H. C. Russell, b.a., c.m.g., f.r.s. [One Plate] 106 



Australian Aborigines : varieties of food and methods of obtaining it. Py W. 



T. Wyndham, Boyne Island, Queensland 112 



Some applications of the results of testing Australian Timbers to the design and 

 construction of timber structures. By W. H. Warren, M. Inst., C.E., M. 

 Am. Soc. C.E., Wh. Sc. &c. [Nine Diagrams] 129 



Proceedings, Donations, &c 38,80,120,162,170 



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