EEPOET OF DELEGATES TO ADELAIDE MEETING 

 OF THE AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



By JOHN SHIRLEY, B.Sc. 



[Bead heforr the Roi/al Societij of Queensland, 15th Dece))d)er, 1893.] 



Mr. C. W. De Vis, M.A., and the Author of this Report attended the 

 meeting as Delegates from the Royal Society of Queensland. The Report 

 was received with approbation, and the thanks of the Society were recorded. 

 In view of the approaching publication of the volume of the Proceedings of 

 the Association at the Adelaide Meeting, the publication of the Report of 

 the Delegates has become unnecessary. 



ON CEEATODUS FOSTERI. 



By THOMAS ILLIDGE. 



\Iie<id hefiire the lloijul Societij of Queendand, 15th December, 1893. 



Ceratodm Foster! . 

 The Burnett Salmon, so called, is an inhabitant of the Burnett 

 and Mary rivers in Queensland, and is confined to those rivers so 

 far as is known. It is well known to biologists as one of the 

 connecting links between the fishes and the amphibia. 



Wonderful stories, mostly fables, are related of Ceratodus. 

 One of these fables is that the fish can travel on land, and any 

 one who has caught it can testify to its inability to do so. I was 

 once told, with every appearance of sincerity, by a gentleman 

 who lives on the Burnett, that he had seen a " salmon" over 

 twenty feet from the water, where it must have gone of its own 



