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and of the overwhelming of existing forests by sea-sand on the 
eastern coasts (which exhibit phenomena of elevation). 
Within an area of a few hundred yards on the G-reenisland coast 
of Otago, the sand-dunes may he seen encroaching on the forest, 
which consists mainly of gigantic conifers : of other exogenous trees 
of the natural orders— 
Myrtacece^ 
Araliacece, 
Leguminosm, 
Onagrarioe^ 
Magnoliacece, 
Violariece, 
Pittosporece, 
Malvacece, 
Tiliacece, 
CornecB : 
of palm-like and shrubby Liliacece ; and of arborescent Ferns : 
while they are also covering in marshes and lagoons, whose vege- 
tation consists chiefly of littoral Grasses and Cyperacece : fresh-water 
aguatics ; salt-marsh plants : and marine Algce, 
The following Donations were laid on the table 
Bulletin de L’Academie Eoyale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des 
Beaux-Arts de Belgique, No. 12. Bruxelles, 1864. 8vo. — 
From the Academy. 
Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij 
der Wetenschappen te Haarlem. XIX® Deel, XXI® Deel, 1® 
Stuk. 4to. Haarlem, 1864. — From the Society. 
Sitzungsberichte der Konigl. Bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften 
zu Munchen, 1864. II., Heft 2. Munchen, 1864. 8vo. — 
From the Academy. 
Eeport of the Proceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic So- 
ciety of the West Biding of Yorkshire for 1863-64. 8vo. 
Leeds, 1864.- — From the Society. 
On the Early History of Leeds. By Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A. 
8vo. Leeds, 1864. — From the same. 
Forty-fourth Beport of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary 
Society. 8vo. Leeds, 1864. — From the Society. 
Thoughts on the Influence of Ether in the Solar System, its re- 
lations to the Zodiacal Light, Comets, the Seasons, and 
periodical Shooting Stars. By Alexander Wilcocks, M.D. 
4to. Philadelphia, 1864. — From the Author. 
