218 
Mitchell shale, disposition as de- 
termining water supply, 209 
Moggridge on harvesting ants, 148-9 
Monitor gouldii, humerus, 26 
Monotreme, on extinct, 35 
Moresby Island, language of, 5; 
white Papuans at, 99 
Mount Perry, character of district, 
41; chief botanical features, 
42-3; flora of, 41 
mosses new to Queensland, 52 
Mueller, Baron, on Echinocarpus 
and Sloanea, 144; Elzocarpus 
bancrofti, sp. nov., 141-3; on 
new tiliaceous tree, 141 
Murray River, sea-scum in, 23 
Musgrave, His Excellency, on social 
position of aborigines, 175-6 
music amongst Papuans, 104 
Mycoolon tribe, 164 
myths of blacks, vid. aborigines 
nest of satin bower-bird, 12 
Ninox, food of, 119 
Notiosaurus dentatus, humerus, 26; 
probable habits, 30; scapula, 
28; tooth, 31 
Odatria punctata, humerus of, 26 
Officers and Council, 1885-6, 76 
opthalmia, Papuan remedy, 111 
Ornithorhynchus agilis, n. sp., 35; 
mandible, 38; tibia, 36 
Owen, Sir R., on extinct lizard, 25 
Pallymnarchus, n. g., 191; P. 
pollens, n. sp., 91 
Palmer, E., on beliefs of Queens- 
land blacks, 163; visitation of 
rats, 193 
paw-paw from Woodlark Islands, 
4; fruit on “ male tree.” 40 
Papuans, W. Armit on, 78-116 
Papuans, agriculture amongst, 103; 
aquiline nose, 83; cannibalism, 
105; chastity of, 106-7; coast 
tribes, character of, 100; con- 
flicting statements regarding 
race, 95; clothing, 106; dialects, 
105; diseases of, 1C9-11; 
divorce, 115; domestic virtues, 
93; dyes, use of, 102; fondness 
of flowers, 102 ; food of interior 
tribes, 102; food of coast 
tribes, 103,115; greeting, mode 
of, 113; hunting, 113; light- 
INDEX. 
coloured, 93, 95, 98, 99; mar- 
riage customs, 110; a mixed 
race (D’Albertis), 96; music, 
104; pottery, 104; stone-age, 
103; rights of women, 115; 
treatment of dead, 101, 114 
Papuans and Malays, 81-2 
Pardalotus striatus, local race of, 
120 
periodicity in annual rainfall, 176, 
179; in monthly, 179-80 
petition re Title of Society, 64-5 
Pettigrew, Hon. W., on properties 
of cunjevoi, 211 
Pheidole, harvesting ant, 152-8; 
habits of species, 156 
Philemon, sp., at Chinchilla, 123 
Pink, J., on hybridization, 141 
pituri, Dr. Bancroft on, 69 
Pleiades, black’s beliefs concern- 
ing, 174 
poisonous properties of sea-scum, 
23-4 
pottery trade in New Guinea, 104 
Ptilorhynchus, nest of, 12 
Queensland Philosophical Society, 
work of, 67 
rainfall at Brisbane, annual, repre- 
sented by continuous curves, 
177-8 ; by closed curves, 178 ; 
break in regularity of occur- 
rence, 179; monthly calculated, 
179; forecast for 1886, 180 
Raphia ruffia. economic value, fruit- 
ing in Brisbane, number of 
seeds estimated, 210 
rats, notes on visitation of, 193; 
the whence of, 193; occur- 
rences preceding visit, 193; 
numbers, 194; damage done, 
194; description of rat, 195; 
changes coincident with visit, 
195; decrease, ‘197; cause of © 
decrease, 197-8; rats in Bom-: 
bay, 196-7 
Rawnsley, H. C., on lyre-bird, 68 
Red Sea, origin of name, 21; 
salinity of, 21 
red seas, Buckle on, Darwin, Du- 
pont, Hinds, MacDonald, Lind- 
ley, 21; salt, 22 
Report of Council at annual |meet- 
ing, 61 
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