INDEX. 
Aborigines’ belief in future state, 
164; belief in spirits, 170; care 
for sick, 169; death song of, 
170 (note) ; doctor-men among, 
165; method of reckoning time, 
173; myths relating to milky 
way, 172-3; their origin, 166; 
production of rain, 166; par- 
ticular crystal, 166; phenomena 
of heavens, 173-4; removal of 
teeth, 166; spirits, 171; Yal- 
airy, 172-3; witch-craft among, 
167-9 
Acanthiza uropygialis, 
Chinchilla, 12 
Acanthogenys at Chinchilla, 123 
Acari and “black spot” of grape, 
all 
Address, Presidential, 67 
agriculture in New Guinea, 183 
Aleurites molluccana, nuts of, 39 
Alstonia constricta, Bancroft on, 60 
moths feeding 
on, 60 
Annual Meeting, Report of Com- 
mittee, 61 
antimony regulus from Northcote, 
61 
Gld. at 
99 32 
ants, harvesting, Adams on, 148; 
Curtis on, 151; Gould on, 146; 
Hope on, 147; Jerdon on, 148; 
Kirby & Spence on, 146; Lake 
on, 148; Lespés on, 148; Lin- 
cecum on, 148-50; Lubbock on, 
150; McCook on, 149-150; Mog- 
gridge on, 148-9; Tryon on, 
146 
ants, harvesting, in Queensland, 
151; Armit on, 151-2; Black- 
man on, 158; Roth on, 152 
ants, harvesting, at Brisbane, 
158-8; at Rockhampton, 158, 
62; at Georgetown, 151-2 
ants, harvesting, aid dispersion 
plants, 155; injurious to gar- 
deners, 154 
ants, range of, harvesting habit 
amongst ants, 151 
ants’ nest, arboreal, fungus on, 33 
Apistus Caloundra, n. sp., 145 
Armit, W., on Papuans, 78-116 
—on harvesting aunts, 
151-2 
a philology of Papuans, 
rags Lab 
Artesian wells and water supply, 
08 
—— Falconer on, 208 
at Mitchell, 208 
at Dulbydilla, 208 
astronomy amongst aborigines, 
173-4 
Bancroft, J., on Aleurites, 11; on 
Alstonia, 60; on “ black spot” 
in grapes, 11; on Ceratonia 
siliqua, 39; on Chinese immi- 
grants, 72; on Cyperus escu- 
lentus, 39; on Eleocharis, 39; 
on filarian disease, 73-4; on 
Hovenia, 39; on lenticels, 70; 
on moths on Alstonia, 60; on 
paw-paw fruit, 40; on pitcher 
plants, 40; on pituri, 69; 
Presidential address, 67 ; tick 
blindness, 69; Trapa bicornis, 
39; water supply, 75; Yowa, 
39 
Barbula calycina, Schwegr., 53 
barograph tracing, Thorpe, J., on, 
33, 40, 162, 191, 213 
Barton, Dr. F. J., meteorology of 
Brisbane, 67 
Base Line, Tully on measurement 
of, 127 
= » measurement by steel 
tape, 127-30; how conducted, 
131-2; advantage of process 
used, 133; accuracy attained, 
134; length of, 136; sources 
of error in measurement, 134 ; 
result of measurement tabu- 
lated, 139; where situated, 130 
