NOTES ON THE CERATODUS. 383 



He was author of the f ollowmg- : — 



(1) " Notes on some of the Hoots, Tubers, Bulbs, and Fruits used 

 as Vegetable Food by the Aboriginals of North Queensland." 

 ^"Bulletin" office, Kockhampton, 1866, pp. 16.) 



These notes have the botanical and aboriginal names, and were 

 iricorporated by Brough Smyth, in his " Aborigines of Victoria,"' 

 i. 227. 



(2) ■■ In the Catalogue of the Natural and Industrial Products of 

 Queensland," exhibited in the Local Exposition by the Commissioners, 

 29th October, 1861, Mons. Thozet exhibited tobacco in the leaf, cigars, 

 cotton, wheat, various native tree barks possessmg medicinal pro- 

 perties, fibres. 



(3) " Sketch of the Residence of James Morrill among the Abori- 

 ginals of Northern Queensland for Seventeen Years, being a Nan-ative 

 of his Life, Shipwreck, Landing on the Coast, and Residence among 

 the Aboriginals ; also an Account of the Natural Productions of 

 Northern Queensland, and Manners, Customs, Langaiage, and Super- 

 stitions of its Inhabitants," by Edmund Gregoiy. '" Courier" oilice, 

 Brisbane, 2nd Edn., pp. 23, 1865. 



This remarkable man, whose name was really James Mui'rells, 

 as pointed out by Mr. Gregoiy, gave an account of the seeds, roots, 

 (fee, he fed upon while he lived like an aborigine, and, in the " Rock- 

 hampton Bulletin" of 14th March, 1863, M. Thozet gives a valuable 

 account of Murrell's food-plants, and it is copied in Mr. Gregory's 

 pamphlet. 



He is commemorated by the following species : — Acacia Thoze- 

 tiana, F. v. l^i.—Alhizzia Thozetiana, F. Muell. ; Terminalia Thozetii, 

 Benth. ; Irora Thozetiana, F. v. lA.=Randia densiflora, Benth. ; 

 Jamhosa Thozetiana, F. v. M..^ Eugenia myrtifolia, Sims; Aristo- 

 lochia Thozetii, F. v. M. ; Cladodes Thozetiana, li-A\\\. = Alchornea 

 Thozetiana, Baill. ; Eucalyptus Thoietiatia, F. v. M. 



I am indebted to Madame Thozet and also to Mr. Thomas V. 

 Nobbs, the town clerk of Rockhampton (M. Thozet 's son-in-law) for 

 some of the above information. , 



Tenison-Woods, Julian E. (1832-1889)— 



See (5 and 6). See also a paper '" On a Fossil-plant Foi-mation 

 in Central Queensland." (Wing's " Southern Science Record," iii., 77.) 

 He devoted much attention to the botany of Queensland. 



2.— NOTES OX THE CERATODUS. 

 By U. O'CONNOR. 



1. A remai'kable power of the Ceratodus. 



2. A problem solved. 



(1.) On my sixth journey in transferring ceratodus to new 

 habitats, more specimens having been collected than my three tanks 

 could conveniently accommodate, I resolved to make the experiment 

 of conveying the surplus without immersing them in water. At the 

 bottom of a wooden box a series of partitions were fixed, made of deal 

 6 in. wide, i in. thick and 6 in. apart.. These compartments weve 



