8 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 



of Transactions of the Philosophical Society of N.S.W., published 

 by the Society in 1866. This volume contains a selection of 

 papers read before the Society between 1862 - 1865. Since then 

 Professor Stephens took no active part in our Society of which 

 he was however a member to the time of his decease, his spare 

 time being chiefly occupied with the affairs and progress of the 

 former Entomological and the present Linnean Society as stated 

 in the foregoing. 



Papers read before the Society. — The following is a list of papers 

 read during last year : — 



1890. 

 May 7. 1 — Presidential Address. By Prof. Liversidge, m.a., f.r.s. 



June 4. 2 — On a compressed-air Flying-machine. By Lawrence 

 Hargrave. 



,, 3— On the treatment of Slips on the Illawarra Railway 



at Stanwell Park. By Walter Shellshear, a.m.i.c.e. 



„ 4 — On Native names of some of the Runs &c. in the 



Lachlan District. By F. B. W. Woolrych. 

 „ 5 — Remarks on a new Plant rich in tannin. By Charles 



Moore, f.l.s. 

 *July2 

 Aug. 6. 

 Sept. 3. 

 Nov. 5. 



Aug. 6. 7 — The Theory of the Repetition of Angular Measures 

 with Theodolites. By G. H. Knibbs. 



,, 8 — On some Photographs of the Milky Way, recently 



taken at Sydney Observatory. By H. C. Russell, 



B.A., C.M.G., F.R.S. 



,, 9 — Australian Aborigines : varieties of food and methods 



of obtaining it. By W. T. Wyndham. 



* In this paper the Baron was pleased to name one of the plants described 

 after your President, " Tylojyhora Leibiana." 



6 —Record of hitherto undescribed Plants from Arnheim's 

 Land. By Baron Ferd. von Mueller, k.c.m.g , m. 



and Ph.D., F.R.S., &c. 



