FURTHER NOTES ON CRATER LAKES AT BAN RAN 



By N. W. BROUN 



(Communicated by Hon. A. Noeton, M.L.C. 



[Bead before the Royal Society of Queensland, October 5, 1695.] 



[Specimens were exhibited of — (1) red, or terra-cotta lava, 

 and (2) black lava, both very porous. Mr. Broun pointed out 

 that he had observed river gravel, two or three feet in thickness, 

 lying between two beds of lava. — R. L. J.] 



A FISH-POISON OF THE ABORIGINES 



By J. SHIRLEY, B.Sc. 



DisTBicT Inspector of Schools. 



[Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, October 5, 1895. 



It has long been known to Australian ethnologists that the 

 principles of certain plants are employed by aboriginals in 

 poisoning or stupefying fish with a view to their easy capture for 

 food ; but little has been done to identify the plants employed, 

 so that the chemist may make known to us the name and 

 qualities of the alkaloid or other substance which the plant 

 contains. Having to visit Mudgeraba, a settlement to the south 

 of Nerang, on a creek of the same name, and distant about four 



