ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA 



PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS, 1923 



CONTENTS 



Page 

 Studied in T.i5inaiiian Mammals, Livio^ and Kxtinct. Ku. VIH. 

 Pleistocene Marsupials from King Island. By H. H. Scott and 

 Clive Lord, F.L.S • 1 



Studies in Tasmanian Mammals, Living and Extinct, No. IX. 

 Notctherium rictoriac. Owen. By H. H. Scott and Clive Lord, 

 F.L.S 4 



Studieti in Tasmanian Mammals, Living; and Extinct. No. X. 

 Giant Wallaby, Macroptts avnii, Owen. By H. H. Scott and Clive 

 Lord, F.L.S 6 



Notes on a Geological Keconnaissance of Mt. Anne and the Weld 

 River Valley, Sputh-Western Tasmania. By A. N. Lewis, M.C . 



LL.B. . . : ." 



Vinriiluni stxfasciatnm, Richardson. An addition to the Fish Fauna 



of Tasmania. By Clive Lord, F.L.S 43 



A Note on thr Burial Customs of the Ta-^mrmi.-m Alnirii'ini's. lU- 



Cliv* Lord, F.L.S ■» 



Mollusca of King Island. By W. L. May 47 



Studies in Tasmanian Mammals, Living and Extinct. No. XL 

 Notes on a Mutilated Femur of Notothenum. By H. H. Scott and 

 Clive Lord, F.L.S 6ti 



Auftrulian Dvtidac. [Dipt.] By A.- L. Tonnoiv •''^ 



Not«s on Australian Hombyliidae, mostly from Uie manusi : 

 papers of the late Arthur White. By G. H. Hardy 



An Kxperimental Method of presenting the Principles determining 

 the General Properties of Optical Gratings. By A. L. McAuiay. 

 B.Sc, B.A.. Ph.l) »' 



A Note on the King kla»d Emu. By JI. H. Scott n03 



Description of Two Underground Fungi. By L. Rodway, C.M.G. . . 108 



R. M. Johnston Memorial Lecture. Geological Evidence of the 

 Antiquity of Man in the Gommonwealth, with special reference 

 to t*»e Tasmanian Aborigines. By Professor Sir T. W. Edgewoi-th 

 David, K.B.F... C.M.G. , F.R.S., B.A.. F.G.S 109 



Tahmanian HymcnoitaHlrareae. By L. Rodway, C.M.(i 1">1 



Abstract of ProcpHingn H-- 



Atjnual Report 



Officii. .168 



L^t of Meml)er,. 1'"'^' 



RfpoM •"'•' 



ObilN.,.. l-^" 



Branch Report-. '^' 



R^■pol^« of Sec-ti. : 1 ^- 



Ar...,,,:. 1^1 



Index ""■' 



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