for the year 1867. 1X 
boxes and drawers, where they were fast becoming de- 
stroyed, are at last restored to view, and by the zeal of 
the curator, Mr. Thos. Harrison, have been methodically 
arranged. 
The progress of this society is obviously closely associ- 
ated with that of our various national scientific establish- 
ments, and although I have no doubt that many who 
are now present have watched their labours with the live- 
liest interest, I have yet ventured to act on the opinion that 
a brief retrospect of the more prominent results of the last — 
year’s work will be acceptable in this place. 
In the last year’s history of the botanical department, so 
ably directed by our distinguished member, Dr. Mueller, 
there are several interesting points which claim our notice. 
The president of the Linnzean Society is now publishing a 
magniticent botanical work, in which Dr. Mueller is co- 
operative editor ; the third volume of this work has now 
been issued. Dr. Mueller’s own work, the Fragmenta 
Phytographie Australis, has now attained its fifth volume, 
and promises, when the Fragmenta shall be combined, to 
_ become a complete compendium of the Australian flora. We 
are informed by Dr. Mueller that accurate measurements of 
some of the great Australian Hucalypti have been made. One 
erand specimen in Western Australia, known as Mueller’s 
Eucalyptus colossa, is ascertained to be 400 feet high ; 
while one of Labillardier’s Hucalyptus amygdalina, in the 
Dandenong Ranges, measured 480 feet, which is as high as 
the great pyramid of Gizah. Victorian trees of this 
character are as yet the only ones which have been found to 
rival the Californian Wellingtonia gigantea. In my last 
address your attention was drawn to the introduction 
into this colony of the cinchona. There are now thousands 
of individuals of two of the most valuable kinds, viz., the 
_ C. Succirubra and C. Condaminea, thriving in the Botanical 
