X ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Ylr. C. T. White, F.L.S., exhibited (1) specimens of 

 Bambusa Moreheadiana, Bail., a common climber in the 

 .scrubs (rain forests) of the Russell River area (bamboos 

 are tropical plants which reach their greatest development 

 in Southern and Eastern Asia. The group is represented 

 in Australia by only two species) ; (2) fruits of Garcinia 

 Xanthochijmus. Hook, f., a native of India, cultivated in 

 North Queensland; the specimens were gathered by Mr. 

 W. J. Ross from a tree growing at Edge Hill, near Cairns ; 

 (3) resin exuded by CaloplujUum Inophyllum, Linn., 

 collected on Daru Island l)y Mr. J. Cowling. 



]Mr. II. A. Longman, F.L.S., exhibited a iiiounted 

 specimen of an unusually large bandicoot recently killed in 

 Brisbane and donated to the Queensland Museum. He 

 suggested that the large bandicoots occasionally found in 

 South Queensland were the result of the ample diet provided 

 by the introduction of sweet potatoes. In view of varia- 

 tions associated with growth, especially in the mandible, he 

 thought that the supposed specific distinctions between the 

 Northern bandicoots, Isoodon macrurus and torosus and 

 the Southern /. ohesuJus should be maintained only as sub- 

 species, especially as some of the South Queensland speci- 

 mens had the characteristics of the Northern form. Mr. 

 Longman also exhibited a fossil fragment of a reptilian 

 mandible, articular portion, found in the Rewan Police 

 Paddock, Rolleston district, given to him by Dr. Jensen. 

 Although too incomplete to be further determined, the 

 fragment presented characteristics unknown in any fossil 

 or existing Australian reptile. 



Dr. H. I. Jensen, in communicating his paper entitled 

 "Some Notes on the Geology of Northern Australia," 

 delivered a lecture on the geology of that part of the 

 continent. He explained how the swing of the trend lines 

 of the folded Silurian and Devonian rocks implied the 

 geographical unity of North-West Queensland, the Northern 

 Territory, and the West Australian massif as far back as 

 the Precambrian; the Paleozoic sediments were moulded 

 upon the old continent and increased its area in an easterly 

 direction. The undisturbed nature of the Permo-Carboni- 

 ferous in North QueeLslaud shows that the whole of the 

 North of this State became part of the Gondwana continental 

 mass in lat<' Paleozoic times, the Permo-Carboniferous 

 sediments being left by what Suess calls a transgression. 



