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NATURE 



[June 24, 1922 



mediate steps might be taken by the Commonwealth 

 Government to institute a Federal Museum, in 

 which could be gathered together specimens of 

 Australian animals and accurate information con- 

 cerning their distribution. Doubtless many private 

 individuals would donate part of their collections to 

 form the nucleus of such a display of the Australian 

 fauna. (II.) Breeding experiments with the Satyrine 

 genus Tisiphone. The genus Tisiphone is confined 

 to the coast and Main Dividing Range of eastern 

 and south-eastern Australia, and the T. abeona 

 extends, with six sub-species, from southern Queens- 

 land into Victoria, but specimens from a small area 

 round Port Macquarie appeared to be natural hybrids. 

 In October 1920, pupse and larvae of T. morrisi were 

 obtained from Urunga, at the mouth of the Bellingen 

 River, and reared. Similarly, larvae of T. abeona 

 from near Sydney were reared. Crosses were obtained 

 and the work carried to the third generation. The 

 results afford some proof that T. Joanna is a natural 

 hybrid. The distribution of Tisiphone may help in 

 elucidating the physiography of eastern Australia 

 in Tertiary time. Possibly before the uplifting 

 movement at the end of the Pliocene the ancestor 

 of Tisiphone was in eastern Australia, and became 

 restricted to the higher elevations where moisture 

 was more abundant. The Cassilis Gap was responsible 

 for discontinuous distribution and development took 

 place independently north and south of this Gap. 

 Later the northern and southern forms were able to 

 reach the coast, and where they met the very complex 

 race T. joanna was developed. — W. F. Blakely : 

 The Loranthaceae of Australia. Pt. I. The range 

 and origin of the family were given and the seeds 

 and germination, parasitism, union with the host, 

 adventitious roots, mimicry, dispersal and agents 

 of distribution described. — Vera Irwin-Smith : Notes 

 on nematodes of the genus Physaloptera, with 

 special reference to those parasitic in reptiles. Pt. II. 

 A review of the Physaloptera of lizards. The 

 characters useful in the determination of the various 

 species received particular attention. — Marguerite 

 Henry : A monograph of the freshwater Entomostraca 

 of New South Wales. Pt. I. Cladocera. Descrip- 

 tions of fifty species, belonging to seventeen genera, 

 were given ; five of the species are new and the 

 presence of others in AustraUa is recorded for the 

 first time. 



April 26. — Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, president, in the 

 chair. — H. J. Carter: Australian Coleoptera : Notes and 

 new species. No. ii. A series of Chalcotasnia, together 

 with a table of the Australian species, and some 

 Australian species of Stigmodera are described. Eight 

 species of Buprestidae, eleven species of Tenebrionidae, 

 and one genus and five species of Cistelidae are new. — 

 F. Muir : A new genus of Australian Cixiidae 

 (Homoptera). The new genus is allied to Lepto- 

 clamys Kirk. Specimens were collected near Sydney. 

 The abnormal development of the front legs indicates 

 that the nymph is probably subterraneous in its 

 habits. — T. Harvey Johnston and O. W. Tiegs : New 

 gyrodactyloid trematodes from Australian fishes, 

 together with a reclassification of the super-family 

 Gyrodactyloidea. The first species of monogenetic 

 Trematoda belonging to the Gyrodactylidae from 

 Australasia are described. The hosts comprise seven 

 species of freshwater fish and five species of marine 

 fish. A new super-family and five new sub-families 

 are proposed. In addition to the new Australian 

 genera five others are proposed, mainly for North 

 American species. AH the known freshwater species 

 show affinities with Australian marine species, thus 

 emphasising the marine origin of the Australian fresh- 

 water fish fauna. 



NO. 2747, VOL. 109] 



Official Publications Received. 



Fifty-third Annual Report of the Trustees of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, for the Year 1921. Pp. 259. (New York.) 



Koninklijk Nederlandsch Meteorologisch Instituut. No. 106. 

 Ergebnisse aerologischer Beobachtungen. 9. 1920. Pp. x + 176. 

 ( Utrecht : Kemink en Zoon.) 3.00 F. 



Sitzungsberichte der physikalisch-medizinisclien Sozietat in Erlangen. 

 52 und 53 Band, 1920-1921. Pp. xi.\; + 221. (Erlangen : M.Mencke.) 



Diary of Societies. 



FRIDAY, June 23. 



Royal Society of Arts (Indian Section), at 4.30. — F. W. Woods : 

 Irrigation Enterprise in India. 



Physical Society of London (at Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology), at 5. — J. W. Fisher : An Experiment on Molecular 

 Gyrostatic Action. — Prof. A. O. Rankine and C. J. Smith : The 

 Viscous Properties and Molecular Dimensions of Silicane. — W. N. 

 Bond : The Pressmre-Gradient in Liquids flowing through Cones. — 

 Dr. E. E. Fournier d'Albe : Demonstration of a Mercury-drop 

 Method of producing Visual Effects by Means of Sound. 



MONDAY, June 26. 

 Medical Officers of Schools Association (at Medical Society of 



London), at 5.— Prof. F. S. Langmead, Dr. W. P. S. Branson, and 



Dr. James : Discussion on Cardiac Children as a Public Health 



Problem. 

 Royal Society of Medicine (Odontology Section), at 8. — F. Coleman : 



Types of Difficult Extraction and their Treatment. 

 Royal Institute of British Architects, at 8.30.— Presentation of 



the Royal Gold Medal. 

 Royal Geographical Society (at ^Eolian Hall), at 8.30.— R. A. 



Frazer : The Oxford Expedition to Spitsbergen, 1921. 



TUESDAY, June 27. 



Research Defence Society (Annual General Meeting) (at Medical 

 Society of London), at 3.30.— Sir Walter Fletcher : Medical Research 

 and National Life. , , „„ 



MiNERALOGicAL SOCIETY (at Geological Society of London), at o.30.— 

 Dr. W. F. P. McLintock and S. R. Ennos : The Structure and Com- 

 position of the Strathmore Meteorite. — A. Brammall and H. F. 

 Harwood : The Dartmoor Granite (part), its Petrology and Accessory 

 Minerals. — H. F. Collins : Some Crystallised Sulphates from the 

 Province of Huelva, Spain.— Prof. H. Hilton : The Graphical Deter- 

 mination of the Constants of a Shear.— Prof. H. Hilton : A Note on 

 Crystallographic Notation.— A. F. Hallimond : Glauconite from 

 Lewes — Dr. L. J. Spencer : Ninth List of New Mineral Names. 



Royal Anthropological Institute, at 8.15.— Prof. A. Mawer : The 

 Study of English Place-names. 



Institution of Civil Engineers, at 8.30. — ^Annual Conv ersazione. 



WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28. 



royal Society of Arts (Annual General Meeting), at 4. 



Royal Society of Medicine, at 5. — Lt.-Col. H. Watkins-PitcMord : 

 Thanatophidia, or Poisonous Snakes of Africa. ^^ „ ^ , 



Geological Society of London, at 5.30.— C. E. TiUey : The Petrology 

 of the Metamorphosed Rocks of Start District (South Devon).— 

 Dr A R Dwerryhouse : The Glaciations of the Counties of Antrmi, 

 Down', and Parts of Armagh, Londonderry, Tyrone, Monaghan, and 

 Louth in Ireland. 



THURSDAY, June 29. 



royal Society, at i.SO.— Probable Papers.— Siv J. J. Thomson : The 

 Analysis by Positive Rays of the Heavier Constituents of the Atmo- 

 sphere ; of the Gases in a Vessel, in which Radium Chloride had been 

 stored for 14 Years, and of the Gases given off by Deflagrated Metals. 

 —Sir Robert Hadfield, Bart. : The Corrosion of Iron and Steel.— 

 Dr W B Dawson : Harmonic Tidal Constants for Standard Ports 

 of Reference in Canada.— Prof. J. C. McLennan and M. L. Clark: 

 The Excitation of Characteristic X-rays from Light Elements.— 

 I C Bramwell : An Abnormal Relationship of the Electrical to the 

 Mechanical Response in the Ventricles.- T. S. P. Strangeways: 

 Observations on the Changes seen in Living Cells during Growth and 



Fellowship of Medicine (at Royal Society of Medicine), at 5.— 

 H J. Paterson : The Diagnosis of Gastric Disease. , „. ^ 



Institution of Electrical Engineers (at the Natural History 

 Museum), at 8.30. — Annual Conversazione. 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE (Urology Section), at 8-30 —Sir Thomas 

 Horder: Report on Renal Function Tests.— K. Walker : Tlie 

 Accessory Sexual Glands of the Rhinoceros, the Flying Wombat, 

 the Ornithorhynchus, the Zebra, and the Tapir. 



FRIDAY, June 30. 



Association of Economic Biologists (at the Royal Horticultural 

 Society's Gardens, Wisley), leaving London 11.15-11.30 a.m.— Annual 

 Field Meeting. , „ ^. . .... 



Royal Society of Medicine (Laryngology Section), at 4.4a. 



PUBLIC LECTURE. 



(The number in brackets indicates the number of the lecture in the series.) 



TUESDAY, June 27. 

 KING'S COLLEGE, at 5.30.— Miss Hilda D. Oakeley : The Idea of Value 

 in the History of Philosophy (2). 



