1326 president's address. 



authors of papers on similar subjects in the Linnean Society as 

 enumerated above, and touching also on points of particular 

 interest to Australian Students of Science which have been treated 

 of elsewhere. 



VERTEBRATES, 



Anthropology. 



Royal Society, N.S.W. — Yol. XXIII. : Aborigines of Austra- 

 lia. W. T. Wyndham. 



New Zealand Institute. — YoL. XXI. : Col. Macdonnell on the 

 Ancient Moa Hunters at Waingongoro. Communicated by 

 James Park. 



A Residence among the Natives of Australia. By K. Lum- 

 holtz. Bull. Am. Geog. Soc. XXI. 1 ; and Among Cannibals, 

 an Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp 

 Life with the Aboriginals of Queensland. By the same author. 

 London, J. Murray ; Melbourne and Sydney, A. Petherick 

 and Co. 



Mammals. 



Royal Society, South Australia. — YoL. XL : On a new Austra- 

 lian Mammal. E. C. Stirling. See also Nature, XXXYII. 

 p. 588; The Zoologist (3), XII. p. 424; Zool. Anz. XI. 

 p. 647, &c. 



New Zealand Institute. — Yol. XX. : On New Zealand Rats. 

 A. Reischek, F. W. Hutton. 



There is a note on the Nomenclature of the Short-eared New 

 Zealand Bat (Chalinolobus morio, for C. tuherculata). Oldfield 

 Thomas. Ann. and Mag. N.H. lY. 462. . 



The question as to the exact relations of the fossil Multi- 

 tuberculata (Fossil Marsupials — so called) to existing forms is 

 discussed by H. F. Osborn (as quoted in last year's Address). 

 Ac, Nat. Sc. Philadelph. p. 88. Upon this subject Prof. Cope 

 (Amer. Naturalist, XXII. pp. 259, 723), referring to Mr. 

 Poulton's observations upon the rudimentary and evanescent 



