viii. Proceedings. [November joth, 1920. 



they were ordinary members, but shall not have the right to 

 vote at any meeting. 



(0) Student associates shall have the right to use the rooms 

 and library, after signing their names, on each occasion, in a 

 book kept for the purpose, but may not take books away from 

 the building. 



(7) The feet for student associateship shall be ten shillings 

 and sixpence for the period of one session (April 1st — March 

 31st). 



Ordinary Meeting, November 30th, 1920. 

 Sir Henry A. Miers, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. (President), in the 



Chair. 



A vote of thanks was passed to the donors of the books upon 

 the table. These included : — " Greenwich Catalogue of Stars 

 for 1910-20," parts 1 and 2, by F. W. D3^son (4-to., London, 1920), 

 presented by Greenwich Observatory; and Bulletins 68 and 69 

 of The Bureau of American Ethnology (8vo., Washington, 1919), 

 presented by the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington. 



Professor T. G. B. Osborn, D.Sc, read a paper entitled 



" Notes on Stone Implements from the Cooper's Creek 

 District, South Australia." 



The collection exhibited was made in May last during a 

 short visit to Killalpannina, on the Barcoo (Cooper's Creek) in 

 the Lake Eyre Region. 



Most of the specimens were found on old camping grounds 

 of the Deari tribe, the survivors of which still live in semi- 

 civilisation in the district centred around Kopperamanna. The 

 damaged knives and the flakes struck off in their manufacture 

 were most abundant in certain places along sandhills, often 

 overlooking a watercourse. From their abundance there it is 

 probable that knives were manufactured in these places, the 

 finished article carried away, and great numbers of flakes and 

 discarded fragments left behind. Upon the camping-grounds 

 scrapers and irregular sharp-edged flakes were more abundant 

 than knife fragments. There is strong reason to believe that, 

 although carefully chipped knives are made, any crude flake 

 struck off at a single blow serves for use as a temporary cut- 

 ting instrument, provided it has a sharp edge, and that it is 

 discarded after use. A full-blooded member of the tribe, 

 although he wore European clothes and was employed as a 

 camel herd by the Killalpannina station from which he received 

 rations, had in his camp equipment a small bag of stones and 



