ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

CONTENTS.

VOLUME XVII.

OFFICERS FOR 1883-84..

ACT OF INCORPORATION

RULES, List of Members, &c.

ART. I.—PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. By Christopher Rolleston, C.M.G.

ART. II.—On the Aborigines inhabiting the Great Lacustrine and

Riverine Depression of the Lower Murray, Lower Murrum-

bidgee, Lower Lachlan, and Lower Darling. By Peter.

Beveridge

ART. III.-On the Waianamatta Shales. By the Rev. J. E.

Tenison-Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c.

ART. IV. Further Remarks on Australian Strophalosiæ, and

description of a new species of Aucella from the Cretaceous

Rocks of North-east Australia. By Robt. Etheridge, junr.,

F.G.S., &c. (Two Plates)..

ART. V.-On Plants used by the Natives of North Queensland,

Flinders, and Mitchell Rivers, for food, medicine, &c. By

Edward Palmer (M.L.A., Queensland)

ART. VI.—Notes on the genus Macrozamia, with descriptions of

some new species. By Charles Moore, F.L.S., V.P.

ART. VII.—A list of Double Stars. By H. C. Russell, B. A., F. R. A.S.

ART. VIII.-Some Facts connected with Irrigation. By H. C.

Russell, B.A., F.R.A.S., F.M.S.

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ART. IX.-On the discolouration of white bricks made from certain

clays in the neighbourhood of Sydney. By E. H. Rennie,

M.A., D.Sc.

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ART. X.-On the Roots of the Sugar-cane. By Henry Ling Roth,

F.M.S., F.S.S. (Two Plates)

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ART. XI.-On Irrigation in Upper India. By H. G. McKinney,

M.E., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E.

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Art. XII.-On Tanks and Wells of New South Wales, Water

Supply, and Irrigation. By A. Pepys Wood

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ART. XIII.—Additions to the Census of the Genera of Plants

hitherto known as indigenous to Australia. By Baron von

Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., &c........

ART. XIV.-Abstract of Papers upon the Chemistry of Australian

Products. By W. A. Dixon, F.C.S.

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EXCHANGES AND PRESENTATIONS MADE BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF

NEW SOUTH WALES, 1883..

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS

APPENDIX: Abstract of the Meteorological Observations at the

Sydney Observatory. By H. C. Russell, B.A., F.R.A.S.,

F.M.S., Government Astronomer

RAINFALL MAP for the year 1883. By H. C. Russell, B.A.,

F.R.A.S.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

INDEX

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