TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 941 
4. On the Aboriginal Stick and Bone Writing of Australia. 
By Dr. Grorce Hartery, /.R.S. 
The Australian aborigines use a script of straight incised lines or notches, which 
resemble Ogam characters, except that they are written without a stem line. 
They are arranged in groups, across a perpendicular column, sometimes on one 
side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally across the centre. Sometimes the 
perpendicular columns are two or more in number. Different sizes of characters 
are used in the same communication; and an emphatic form occurs with longer 
lines, more widely spaced. Inscriptions on bone are found in Australia, as in 
Ireland, in the Ogam script; and the Australians, like the old Scandinavians, tie 
hair, human or other, to their letters. 
Similar straight line scripts are found among the Gilas in Central America, and 
among the Samoyeds, and are all written in the same way. The question 
remains open whether these are independent inventions, or derived from a common 
source, 
5. The Straw Goblin. By C. G. LELAND. 
6. Marks on Ancient Monuments. By C. G. Letanp, 
