1897.] MATHEWS — AUSTRALIAN ROCK CARVINGS. 195 



Prof. P^^dward D. Cope, at Pliiladclpliia, on April 12, 1897, 

 set. 56. 



Dr. Traill Green, at Easton, Pa., on April 29, 1897, iet. 83. 



Mr. George W. Biddle, at Philadelphia, on April 29, 1897, 

 net, 79. 



The President was requested to appoint members to prepare 

 biographical notices of Prof. Cope and Mr. Biddle. 



The following papers were presented : 



" Anstralian Rock Carvings," by R. H. Mathews. 



" On the Transitive Substitution Groups that are simply 

 Isomorphic to the Symmetric or the Alternating Group of 

 Degree Six," by G. A. Miller, Ph.D. 



Dr. Hays moved that after the presentation of Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie's communication, the meeting adjourn to recon- 

 vene on Thursday evening, May 13, at 8 o'clock. Adopted. 



Sir Archibald Geikie then presented a verbal communi- 

 cation on " Recent Geological Work in the Hebrides and 

 Faroe Isles," for which the best thanks of the Society were 

 voted to him. 



The meeting was then adjourned by the President, pursuant 

 to the resolution previously adopted. 



AUSTRALIAN ROCK CARVINGS. 



(Plate IV.) 



BY R. H. MATHEWS, L.S. 

 (Read May 7, IS 97.) 



At a meeting of the Royal Society of New South Wales, held on 

 the ist of August, 1894, I read a paper on " The Aboriginal Rock 

 Carvings and Paintings" in that colony, for which I was awarded 

 the Society's medal. ^ I also contributed papers on the same subject 

 to the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain," the Royal Society 



^ /our. Roy. Sac. N. S. Wales, xxviii, 329, 330. 

 2 Jour. Anthrop. Inst., London, xxv, 145, 163. 



