ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. x1. 
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, 29TH May, 1916. 
The ordinary monthly meeting was held in the Geology 
Lecture Theatre in the University, at 8 p.m. 
Dr. Hamlyn-Harris, President, in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
Miss Buckland Taylor, and Messrs. A. Valentine 
Soul, and A. H. Chisholm were elected ordinary members 
of the Society. 
The following paper was read :— 
Some preliminary notes on the habits of the Dawson 
River Barramundi, Scleropages leichhardtii, by 
Drow. h. -Bancroft: (communicated »by Dr. T. 
Harvey Johnston.) 
The President and Mr. Longman offered remarks on 
the paper. 
The President (Dr. Hamlyn-Harris) communicated 
some notes on Kaiva Kuku and Semese dances of Papua, 
illustrating his remarks with a series of exhibits and 
lantern slides. 
He also showed an interesting example ofa clay cap or 
emblem of mourning from an aboriginal grave at Thylungra 
Station, S.W. Queensland, weighing 13lbs. 12}0zs. and 
measuring I4ins. x 8ins. The head dress had been dried 
in an elongated form and was still in the rough. 
Specimens of this kind were wern by either male or 
female mourners until the clay wasted away with age or 
it might be removed by remote relatives after a week or so 
and placed on the grave should the tribe move camp. 
Dr. Butler-Wood exhibited some specimens cf fossil 
bones from post-tertiary deposits in the Chinchilla district, 
including teeth of Pallimnarchus pollens, De Vis. a fragment 
of the mandible of an extinct kangaroo, probably Macropus 
cooperi, and molars of a nototheroid mammal. 
A skin of Hydrus platurus, L., a widely-distributed 
sea snake, which was secured at Caloundra and presented 
to the Queensland Museum, was exhibited by Mr. H. A. 
