Vol. XIII. 

 1913 



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Parrot {P. hconatonotiis), and the Many-coloured Parrot {P. multicolor). 

 Mr. J. W. Mellor exhibited a freak of nature — a domestic chicken that 

 had been hatched with four well-devoloped legs. It was resolved to study 

 a portion of the Hawk family at the next monthly meeting. 



Notes and Notices. 



Erratum. — Launceston Session, second day {Emu, vol. xii., 

 p. 143). — Obviously "17th November" should read '• i8th 

 November." the former date being Sunday. 



Treasurer's Note. — The hon. treasurer again desires to remind 

 members that subscriptions, being payable in advance, are now 

 due. and he will be glad to receive any for the current year ; also 

 payment for the extra part last year (•' Check-list," 2s. 6d.) where 

 still owing. 



Honours for Members of the R.A.O.U. — Dr. T. Harvey Johnston, 

 Lecturer in Biology in the University of Brisbane, for his work on 

 the animal parasites of Australia, has been awarded the David 

 Syme Research Prize by the Council of the University of 

 Melbourne. Dr. Johnston has published a number of papers on 

 different parasites, and before his removal to Brisbane last year 

 was on the staff of the New South Wales Bureau of Microbiology. 

 The prize is open, with a few reservations, to Australia, and is for 

 the encouragement of original research. 



Mr. C. Fenner, amongst other distinctions, at the University of 

 Melbourne, was awarded the Kernot Research Prize for Geology. 



Mr. Brooke NichoUs, the hon. press correspondent of the Union, 

 has passed his examinations for the Doctrate of Dental Science 

 (D.D.Sc.) This is the first occasion this degree has been granted 

 by the University of Melbourne. Dr Nicholls is congratulated 

 accordingly, and is deserving of every success. 



Mock-Latin Names. — The following is taken from The Yorkshire 

 Weekly Post, 11/1/13, and, if the word " ornithological " be 

 substituted for " entomological," the subject may possibly 

 apply, in these latter days, to any enlightened country, save, of 

 couise, to the Commonwealth : — 



" Mr. H. B. Brown gave a lecture ' On Entomological Names.' He 

 characterized his address as ' a jeremiad ' — a tale of lamentation and of woe — 

 concerning the dire confusion and chaos into which men who call them- 

 selves Scientists (with a capital S) have brought the study of insect-life by 

 their ill-considered and unrestrained invention of countless mock-Latin 

 names. An obvious disadvantage in the use of vernacular names is their 

 instability. A second and greater disadvantage in the use of all such names 

 is their uselessness in all countries except that which gave them birth. 

 Many, in fact most, of our English popular names are untranslatable. The 

 invention of a convenient method of naming insects constitutes our debt to 

 the great Swedish scientist, Karl Linne. The Linnean system was a 

 binomial system. On many of the absurdities which certain entomologists 

 have introduced the lecturer made a brilliant onslaught, and gave examples 

 of the most extravagant instances. Here, in the industrial north, we have 

 for our keenest field-workers men of the so-called ' working class,' men who 

 are splendid observers in the field and keen lovers of nature, but men to 



