xvi. abstract of proceedings. 



Abstract of Proceedings, 26th November, 1917. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was 

 held in the Geology Lecture Theatre, in the University 

 of Queensland, at 8 p.m. 



Mr. E. H. Gurney, President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



The President expressed the Society's sympathy with 

 the relatives of the late Dj-. T. P. Lucas, who had been a 

 member of the Society for many years. 



The folloiving pajmr teas read : — 



Notes on a Saproleqnia epidemic amongst Queensland 

 fish, by T. Harvey-Johnston, M.A., D.Sc, C.M.Z.S. 



Remarks were made bj^ Messrs. H. A. Longman and 

 C. T. White and Dr. Richards. 



Exhibit : 



Mr. H. A. Longman exhibited an aboriginal axe, the 

 property of Mr. V. Read, now on loan in the Queensland 

 Museum. This axe, which is said to have been unearthed 

 at Yarraman Creek, is of unusual contour. The cutting 

 edge is convex and no less than 220 mm. across ; the maxi- 

 mum thickness is 60 mm. and the length 228 mm. From the 

 lateral portions of the cutting edge the sides converge in 

 pronounced curves and terminate in a sub-circular haft 

 50 mm. in diameter. In commenting on a sketch of this 

 axe which had been forwarded to him, Sir Baldwin Spencer 

 states : — '' It is of a type that I do not remember to have 

 seen before. We have none like it in our very extensive 

 collection 



The axe has been fashioned from a flattened boulder 

 of basaltic rock of medium grain. The rock material is 

 considerably weathered, and under a thin, brown, iron- 

 stained coating there is a rather thicker layer of weathered 

 felspathic material resting on the darker and fresher rock. 

 Seven or eight small pits, about the size of a pea, and 

 probably repre.senting steam cavities in the rock, occur on 

 the sides of the implement. 



