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früheren Anschauungen trotz Whitman aufrecht halte; ich bedauere 

 nur von Whitman in einigen wesentlichen Puncten vollkommen 

 mißverstanden zu sein. Er imputiert mir Anschauungen, von welchen 

 ich meilenweit entfernt war und sucht »new factsa gegen mich aufzu- 

 stellen, welche ich lange vor ihm selbst bewiesen habe. 

 Neapel, den 2. Juni 1890. 



III. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



30th April, 1890. — 1) Botanical. — 2) Notes on Aboriginal Stone 

 Weapons. No. I. — The Knife used by the Mulligan River (North Central 

 Queensland) aborigines in the ,,Mika" operation. By R. Etheridge. The 

 stone knife was obtained at Sandringham, on the Mulligan River, and fur- 

 nished to the writer by Mr. H. S. W. Crummer, of the Department of Lands. 

 It is flaked from a jasperoid rock, seven and a half inches long, the blade 

 being three-edged, the cutting edges being very sharp. So far as the writer 

 is aware, the Mika-knife has only once before been figured — by Mr. Carl 

 Lumholtz. Various matters connected with the operation are also discussed. 

 — 3) Has man a Geological History in Australia? ByR. Etheridge. The 

 general want of satisfactory evidence of man's existence in Australia during 

 Post Tertiary times is commented on, and the various opinions which have 

 been given on the subject are passed in review. A portion of the human tooth 

 found in the Wellington Breccia Cave by the late Mr. Gerard Krefft is de- 

 scribed, and the question of its value as evidence, from what is known of its 

 history, is discussed. After considering all the evidence at present forthcom- 

 ing the author arrives at the conclusion that the matter can hardly be summed 

 up better than by the very reasonable and often correctly applied Scotch ver- 

 dict of ,,not proven". — Mr. Olliff exhibited the supplementary index to 

 Mr. Whymper's ,, Travels amongst the great Andes of the Equator", con- 

 taining an account of the Coleoptera obtained during the expedition, and he 

 drew attention to the special excellence of the woodcuts of the insects there- 

 in described. — Mr. Skuse exhibited a large collection of Diptera which 

 had been recently made by Mr. R. Helms at Dunoon, Upper Richmond 

 River, N.S.W. The greater part of the collection consisted of N ematocera, 

 belonging to the families Cecidomyidae, Sciaridae, Mycetophilidae, Bibio- 

 nidae, Culicidae, Chironomidae, Psychodidae, Tipulidae, Dixidae, and Rhy- 

 phidae, the majority of the species represented being new. Among the Tipu- 

 lidae, of which specimens of about forty species were obtained, there are 

 several new and remarkable forms, including Limnohia (sensu stricto) , Dicra- 

 nomyia, Thnjplicomyia, Geranomyia^ Libnotes, Orimarga, Molophilus, Trimicra, 

 Conosia, Ltmnophila, GynopUstia, Habromastix and ]\Iacromastix . Also a very 

 extensive collection of Diptera received from the Queensland Museum for 

 descriptive purposes; specimens oi Eristalis tenax, Linn., and Gastrophilus 

 equi, Fab., from New Zealand; and a specimen of the gall of the Coccid 

 Brachyscelis munita, Schrader, found on Eucalyptus robusta, Sm. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



