THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



REPORT OF COUNCIL FOR 1921. 



To the Mc)iihir.s of tlu Eoi/al Socirfy of Queensland. 



Yoav Council has pleasure in submittino' its Report for 

 1921. 



During the year ten papers were read before the Society 

 and published. In addition, the following lectures, to which 

 the public were invited, were; delivered: — ''Glacial ^lan," 

 by Prof. S. B. J. Skertchly, a past President of the Society ; 

 "The Aborigines of Central Australia." Captain S. A. 

 White; "Plant Distribution in the United States," Prof. 

 D. H. Campbell; "'The Relation of the Oil Fields of the 

 World to the Continental S lelves of the Arehivan Conti- 

 nents," Dr. H. I. Jensen; "Australian ^Marsupials. " Prof. 

 W. K. Gregory. The attendance in each case was very 

 gratifying. 



As in previous years the Queensland Government voted 

 £50 to the Society for the publication of scientific )iapers, 

 and acknowledgment of this practical assistance is liereby 

 made. We also wish to acknowledge subsidies by the 

 Trustees of the Walter and Eliza Hall Fund towards 

 defraying the co.st of the following j)apers by Prof. T. H. 

 Johnston and O. AV. Tiegs, AI.Sc. (Walter and Eliza Hall 

 Fellow in p]conomic Biology) : — "New and Little-known 

 Sarcophagid Flies from South-Eastern Queensland" and 

 "On the Biology and Economic Significance of the Chalcid 

 Parasites of Australian Sheep Maggot-flies." The cost of 

 publishing the paper by Prof. T. H. Johnston and iliss M. J. 

 Bancroft, B.Sc. (late Walter and Eliza Hall Fellow in 

 Economic Biology), entitled "The Freshwater Fish 

 Epidemics in Queensland Rivers," was also borne by the 

 Trustees of the Walter and Eliza Hall Fund. 



During the year there have been eleven meetings of the 

 Council, the attendances being as follows: — C. T. White 



