Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. 8 Years' transactions in one volume. It has, however, been thought better to issue each year's transactions separately. Volume XIV. Will be ready in a month or two, and in future each year's transactions will be prepared for issue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. 8: January to December, 1867 Page 259, note, for Longmans read Frazer's Magazine, March 1867. Page 259, note, for read 319. Page 260, note, for Longmans read Frazer's Magazine, March 1867. Page 263, line 10 from bottom for accoun read amount. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. 9 Gentlemen of the Royal Society of Victoria, For the third time it devolves upon me, as your President, to deliver the Annual Address, on this occasion inaugurating our thirteenth session. The honour you have thus conferred upon me was, I confess, an unexpected one; I beg however to assure you most earnestly, that I am fully sensible of the distinction implied in your trust, and no less of the responsibility which it entails. On similar occasions it has been our custom to review the Society's operations during the previous session, touching also on the scientific progress of our public scientific institutions during the past year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. 7: January, 1865 to June, 1866 The Seventh Volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, now issued to the Members, brings the Proceedings of the Society to the close of the first six months of 1866. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1874, Vol. 11 On the Occurrence of a species of Retepora (allied to R. Phwnicea, Busk), in the tertiary beds of Schnap per Point, Hobson's Bay, by R. Etheridge, jun., f.g.s. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. 6: During the Years 1861 to 1864, Inclusive New Zealand having disappeared, it has been thought better to avoid giving an, abstract on so important a subject, in the absence of the original document, unless such could be obtained direct from the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria: Vol. VIII., Containing the Proceedings of the Society During 1895; Vol. IX., Containing Papers Read Before the Society During 1896 Description. - Head short, convex; snout rounded, a little longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening; latter very small, rounded. Body short; limbs moderate, the fore-limb stretched forward reaches the anterior border of the orbit, the hind-limb to a little behind the axilla. Digits rather long, moderately depressed, inferiorly with transverse rows of discoid scales, usually two in a row; apical dilations small, the inferior plates sub-oval. Upper surfaces covered with minute granular scales, intermixed on the back with numerous regularly disposed rounded, or bluntly conical, tubercles. Rostral very low and broad, about four times as broad as high, without median cleft; nostril pierced in a swelling between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals; internasal space concave. Eleven upper labials, the first very large and incompletely divided from the rostral; twelve lower labials, anterior very long, projecting behind the mental. Mental trapezoid, about as broad as long. Scales on the throat minute, granular; abdominal scales fiat, roundish, juxtaposed, a little smaller than the dorsal tubercles. Tail cylindrical, tapering, with rings of scales convex above and at, subquadrangular beneath. Male with three or four blunt spines on each side of the base of the tail. Colour. Brownish-yellow above, with four broad, curved, dark brown bands on the body and five large spots on the tail; a dark brown spot behind the base Of the hind-limb most of the tubercles on the back dark brown; head from snout to behind the eyes uniform dull brown; under surfaces whitish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."