INDEX. 
Rhacopilum tomentosum, Brod., 
53 
Rhinoptera javanica from Moreton 
Bay, 12 
rice, “Golden Hull,” from Bris- 
bane, 60 
rights of women amongst Papuans, 
115 
Ringrose, R. C., 
survey, 198 
Rockhampton, 
on geological 
Eleotris crescens 
from, 33 
—— harvesting ants, 158, 
162 
Salarias lupus, n. sp., 58; galeatus, 
n. sp., 59; furtivus, n. sp., 60 
salinity of Red Sea, 21 
Salt, on sea-scum, 22 
salt as an article of trade in New 
Guinea, 102 
Samarang, language of, 3, 4 
saurian, remains of extinct, exo- 
skeleton, 189; lower jaw, 183; 
malar, 187; mandible, 184-5; 
maxillary, 187; premaxillary, 
186; teeth, 188 ; tympanic, 188 
Scapula of Notiosaurus, 28 
Sceparnadon Ramsayi, incisor, 39 
Sea-scum, Tryon on, 18, 24 
“ in Moreton Bay, 18; at 
Cape Leewin, 18; Murray 
River, 18; properties of, 23 
Sesbania, profuse growth in Gulf 
country, 193 
Shale, Mitchell, and its connection 
with water supply, 209 
Silver ore from Silverfield, 34 
singing amongst Papuans, 104 
Skull compressed by Papuans, 89, 
90 
snakes, mythical, 172 
spirits, belief in, by blacks, 171 
stars, movements of, indicate 
seasons to blacks, 173 
standard bar, measurement of, 
129 
steel-tape, measurement of, 127-30 
stone-age amongst Papuans, 103 
sugar-cane in New Guinea, 102 
superstitions of Queensland blacks, 
163, 175 
table showing result of measure- 
ment of base line, 139 
219 
tape used in measuring base line, 
129-30; determination of its 
length, 130 
teeth, removal of, by blacks, 166 
Teste Island, white Papuans at, 98 
Thamniella vaga, Hook,*53 
Thorpe, J., on record of barograph, 
33, 40, 162, 191, 213 
Thrincool, form of witchcraft, 168 
tibia of Ornithorhynchus agilis, 
36 
tick-blindness, 69 
tiliaceous tree, new species of,. 
141 
Title of Society, petition re, 64-5 
tobacco cultivated in New Guinea, 
102 
tokens of greeting and friendship 
of Papuans, 113 
tooth of Sceparnadon, 39 ; of Notio- 
saurus, 31 
Trade of Papuans: canoes, pottery,. 
salt, 102-4 
Trapa bicornis, esculent plant, 39 
Tree-houses of Papuans, 103 
Trematodon suberectus, 53 
Trichodesmium, character of genus, 
19 
Trichodesmium erythreum, Ehrnb.,. 
Ehrenbergii, Montg., Hindsii, 
Montg, 20; Berkely on, Kut- 
zing on, Montague on, 20; and 
red seas, 21 
trough, use of, in measuring base- 
line, 131 
Tryon, H., on harvesting ants, 146; 
on sea-scum, 18 
Tully, W. A., measurement of base- 
line, 127 
Turner, A. J., on caterpillar’s web, 
61 
Unit of length in base line measure-- 
ment, 123 
vocabularies of Papuans, 5, 11 
Wagenknecht on rainfall at Bris- 
bane, 176-181 
Wallace, R., on Alfuros, 77; on 
Aru natives, 80; on Ké natives, 
80; Papuans and Malays, 81-3 
water supply, importance of pure, 
75, and geological survey of 
colony, 204; conditions deter- 
mining, 205 
