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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original cloth cover: viii+ 210 pages.+ lxxxvi (proceedings, annual report, list of members)+ 79 pages (appendices), 8, 14, 13 (laws). 2 folding maps and 18 illustrations. Edited By John Macadam. Uncut. Blind stamped cloth boards. Gilt titled spine. Detmold Bookbinder Melbourne label on endpaper. John Chapman Bookplate. Faded spine. Minimal spotting to outside edge and some pages. Articles include: Observations on Donati's Comet, made between Oct 12th and Nov 12th, 1858, by LUDWIG BECKER, with five full page colour plates; Some interesting facts founded on Barometrical Observations, by A.C. GREGORY, with plate; On the Geographical Distribution of Gold, with special reference to some Ariferous Rocks in South America, by P. NISSER; Notes on an Australian Bat, No. II., by LUDWIG BECKER, with plate; Suggestions for a System of Drainage for Melbourne, by the Hon. JOHN HOOD M.L.C; A description of the Silver Mines of the Cerro de Pasco, and the Journey to them axross the Andes, by JOHN CAIRNS; On some Domesticated Animals of South America which would be useful in Victoria, by P. NISSER; On the First Technical Use of Gold by the Aborigines of South America, with a description of the Indian Tombs, by P. NISSER, with plate; Improvements in Fundamental Ideas and Elementary Theorems of Geometry, by MARTIN GARDINER, C.E.; On some new Australian Polyzoa, by P.H. MacGILLIVRAY, with plate; On Lightning Conductors generally, eith special reference to the conductor attached to the tower and spire of the Wesley Church, Melbourne, by SIZAR ELLIOTT; On Dove's Law of the Turning of the Wind, . by Professor GEORGE NEUMAYER, with four plates; An attempt to Simplify and Generalise the Theory and Practice of Railway Curves, by WILLIAM HILL, with plate; On the Resources of Victoria and their Development, by WILLIAM E. BRYSON; Notes on the Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of Victoria and other parts of Australia, by P.H. MacGILLIVRAY, with two plates; On Some Tertiary Rocks at Portland Bay, by Rev. JULIAN EDMUND WOODS; On a new Photo-Lithographic Process, by JOHN WALTER OSBORNE, with an illustrative map; Notes on Plants Collected during Mr. John Macdouall Stuart's recent Expedition into the North-West interior of South Australia, by Dr. FERDINAND MUELLER; Notes of a recent personal visit to the unoccupied Northern District of Queensland, by WILLIAM LOCKHART MORTON, with a map of the district; On a new application of Lever Power in the Extraction of Teeth, by the Hon. DAVID E. WILKIE, with a plate; Address of the President, FERDINAND MUELLER, on the occasion of Opening of the Hall of the Society.With the previous owner's relevant notes pencilled neatly on the prelims.