314 E. J. STATHAM. 
at by which the length of time required to provide sufficient 
material for the building up of the heaps referable to these sources, 
can within definite limits be more accurately ascertained. 
It would be a pity to let these interesting relics be swept away 
by the advance of this utilitarian age, which treats even the 
Egyptian Mummy with so little respect as to convert it into 
superphosphate, and is improving the aborigine off the face of 
the earth, taking scant record of his language, songs, folk-lore, 
traditions, and that comprehensive nomenclature which included — 
every natural feature and object with which he was familiar, 
moreover substituting our Dough-boy Hollows, and Quart-pot 
Creeks, for the more rythmical names which in too few instances 
we have taken the trouble to retain. 
HAIL STORMS. 
By H. C. RussEtt, B.A., 0.M.G., F.R.S. 
[With Plate XVI.] 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S. Wales, November 2, 1892. | 
Some recent thunder and hail storms were so violent that they 
call for more than a passing notice, not only on account of their 
severity, but also because they are well marked phenomena in our 
weather. The district in which they were most severe is that 
around Narrabri, and the weather map for the day indicated this 
district as one in which storms would probably manifest great 
intensity. The places from which the best accounts have reached 
me are Narrabri, Avondale, thirty miles due north of Narrabri, : 
and Tulcumbah, fifty-seven miles south-east of Narrabri. 
The Sydney weather chart at 9 a.m. on October 13, the day of 
these storms, shows us that there was but little difference in 
