Tl. ABSTKACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



(iv) A new Queensland Frog. Austrochaperina 

 brevipes, sp. nov., is described from the Bloom- 

 field River, near Cooktown, Queensland. 



Notes and Exhibits. 



Mr. H. A. Longman exhibited a live specimen of 

 Phyllurus platurus 



Dr. R. Hanilyn-Harris exhibited (1) some native 

 knitting needles and opossum-fur twine from Groote 

 Eylandt. It was pointed out that the natives there had 

 been singularly isolated, and beyond possible influence 

 from Malay had not been affected by contact Avith civiliza- 

 tion ; hence the significance of the si^ecimens. The twine 

 consists of series of lengths of fur of about three-quarters 

 of an inch, and these are united by being junctioned into 

 slumps, presenting an almost moniliform appearance. 

 (2) Two unpointed and rather roughly manufactured 

 Death-bones were shown from the Mitchell River, Queens- 

 land. These specimens, which had actually been responsible 

 for the death of two individuals, clearlj'^ demonstrated that 

 in the olden days the natives used implements unlike the 

 ordinar}- type, which may be compared to the elongated 

 bone sewing-needle (example exhibited). (3) Poison carriers 

 from the Roper River. These are made from the wing 

 bones of the Pelican and are of special interest, and they 

 point to the use of such things as arsenic as a modern idea. 

 Whether here, as in Melanesia, the natural jDroperties of 

 poisons were disjDuted and their noxious results attributed 

 to magic charms is an interesting question by no means 

 easily solved. (4) A magical rain stick. 



Mr. A. B. Walkom, by permis.sion of the Director of 

 the Queensland Museum, exhibited a specimen of Annularia 

 associated with Glossopteris from Pernio -Carboniferous 

 rocks near Dunedoo, New South Wales. The specimen is 

 of a type somewhat similar to ^4. stellata (Schloth), and is 

 quite distinct from the only species of Annularia (A. aus- 

 tralis) of which record can be found in rocks of this age in 

 Australia. 



Dr. T. H. Johnston exhibited a series of specimens of 

 Ceratodus. 



