DONATIONS. 163 
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1885. 
IN THE PRESENCE OF His Excentency Sir AntHony Mus- 
GRAVE, K.C.M.G. Tue Hoy. W. Perticrew, M.L.C., IN 
THE CHAIR. 
NEW MEMBERS. 
Lieutenant H. C. Pritchard; Mr. A. Banks; and Mr. Rains- 
ford Hannay. 
DONATIONS. 
“ Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,” 
December, 1884, No. 14. Singapore, 1885. ‘Notes and 
Queries,” No. 1. Singapore, 1885. From the Royal Asiatic 
Society, Singapore, 1885. 
“The Victorian Naturalist,” Vol. II, No. 6. Melbourne, 
October, 1885. From the Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria. 
“Dun Echt Observatory Publications,” Vol. II. Mauritius 
Expedition, 1874. Division II. Aberdeen, 1885. From the 
Karl of Crawford and Balcarres. 
“Verhandlungen des Vereins fiir Naturwissenschaftliche 
Unterhaltung,”’ 1878-1882, Band V. Hamburg, 1883. From 
the Society. 
The following papers were read :— 
CONCERNING SOME SUPERSTITIONS OF 
NORTH QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES. 
BY 
E. PALMER, Hsa., M.L.A. 
Amonesr students of the subject it is now generally conceded, 
even by the few who do not recognise the universality of this 
belief, that it is very dcubtful whether any so-called savage 
