ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
XI. 
Adelaide University in August, 1932. Funds came from the Australian 
National Research Council. Coloured slides — generously loaned by 
Mr. C. P. Mountford, of Adelaide — were shown of the McDonnell Range 
country traversed by the expedition on the way to Mount Liebig, 210 
miles west of Alice Springs. The speaker then gave a brief outline 
of the barren territory inhabited by the Pintubi tribe — who were the 
subjects studied by the expedition. Mount Liebig was the assembly 
point to which the natives had been induced to come by the speaker, 
who made a 500-mile round trip through the Pintubi territory with the 
aid of a Pintubi guide. The country is very poor, with no creeks, and 
high sandhills. It is poor mulga country, the only waters being lime- 
stone soaks and little rockholes in half buried rocks in the desert. 
Living conditions are extremely hard in this area. Life is one long 
struggle for existence. Hence implements and weapons are among the 
most primitive of Central Australia, and ceremonies are less elaborate 
than those of the Aranda. 
Four films were then shown. The first showed the natives 
gathering food — witchetty grubs, honeyants, and roots. The second 
showed the manufacture of weapons — spear throwers, spears and 
boomerangs. The third depicted the ceremonies of simple love magic, 
“ pointing the bone,” and sacred ceremonies. In the last totemic 
ancestors are shown as they are imagined to have looked during their 
original wanderings. Down patterns (of eagle down) are put on the 
head and body of the main actor — stuck on with blood supplied by 
one of the younger men. Chanting goes on during the decorating, chant 
verses relating deeds of the ancestor. There is ceremonial quivering 
by the main actor. Finally comes a very brief and highly conven- 
tionalized piece of action, and in conclusion a member of the chorus 
embraces the main actor or actors. The fourth film depicted further 
ceremonies, including a yam ceremony, a man ceremony, and a 
kangaroo ceremony. The evening ended with a few concluding remarks 
and a further set of coloured slides. 
Abstract of Proceedings, 25th September, 1944. 
The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in the 
Department of Geology of the University on Monday, 25th September, 
at 8 p.m., with the President (Mr. F. A. Perkins) in the chair. Fifty- 
four members and friends were present. The minutes of the previous 
meeting were read and confirmed. Mr. C. C. Chapman was elected to 
Ordinary Membership. 
Professor H. C. Richards gave a lecture entitled “ Heavy Beach 
Deposits of Eastern Australia — Rutile, Monazite, Zircon, etc.” He 
dealt with the nature, origin, distribution, and economic uses of the 
heavy minerals associated with the beach sands of Eastern Australia, 
lie indicated the similarity of these deposits in general character (I.) 
to those of Florida, Brazil and Travancore which in the past have 
been very important sources of supply of monazite and (II.) to the 
iron sands of Japan and New Zealand. It was pointed out that the 
distinctive character of the Australian Deposits between the Clarence 
River and Southport was their comparative richness in Zircon and 
Rutile, two industrial minerals in great demand to-day. The heavy 
