190, /THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
will be found on another page in the present issue of this 
Journal. al 
“Each member is particularly requested to assist in our 
useful and delightful work, and to help to make this, the 
tenth year upon which we are just entering, even more suc- 
cessful than the previous ones; to bring interesting exhibits 
of any kind to our meetings; to share his or her ideas, know- 
ledge: and experiences with his or her fellow members, and 
to as far-as possible take an interest in the excursions by 
personal attendance.’”’ 
CURRENT LITER ATURE. 
Part 4 of ‘‘Records of the Australian Museum,’’ just pub- 
lished, is in point of size a record number, whilst in respect 
of matter it maintains the high standard it has previously 
attained. Dr. Walter E. Roth, late Chief Protector of Abori- 
gines, Queensland, continues his researches in ‘North 
Queensland Ethnography,’’ the subject dealt with in this 
issue being ‘‘Fighting Weapons,’’? This paper is illustrated 
by one text figure and four plates. From an Ethnological 
standpoint this paper (Bulletin No. 13) is exceedingly inter- 
esting. The weapons dealt with include spears, wommeras, 
boomerangs, shields, nulla nullas, fighting-poles, and swords. 
The manner of inter-tribal and individual fighting is also des- 
cribed. Mr. W. J. Rainbow, F.L.S., contributes an interest- 
ing paper on ‘‘The Architecture and Nesting Habits of 
Australian Araneidae,”’ illustrating it with three text figures 
and three beautiful plates. ‘‘Lower Cretaceous Fossils from 
the Sources of the Barcoo, Ward and Nive Rivers, South 
Central Queensland, Part 2—Cephalopoda,”’ is the title of a 
paper by Mr. R. Etheridge, jun., Curator, and this is illus- 
trated by four plates. Mr. T. Harvey Johnston, M.A., B.Sc., 
Parasitologist, Bureau of Microbiology, contributes five 
papers—‘‘On a New Species of Aphrodita,’’? ‘“On a Cestode 
from Dacelo gigas, Bodd,’”’ ‘“‘An Australian Chaetognath,”’ 
“On a New Haemoprotozoan,”’ and ‘‘Notes on Australian 
Entozoa, No. 1.’? Of these papers the four first-named are 
illustrated ; the fifth is an exhaustive biological and biblio- 
graphical catalogue, and is, in fact, a meritorious contribu- 
tion to the literature of the subject upon which it deals. Mr. 
_C. Hedley and Mr. A. F. Bassett Hull have collaborated on 
a paper entitled ‘‘Descriptions of New and other Australian 
Polyplacophora,’’ whilst Messrs. Hedley and W. I. Petterd 
have joined hands in another Conchological paper, “A Re- 
vised Census of the Terrestrial Mollusca of Tasmania,’’ and 
both of these contributions are also copiously illustrated. 
“The Results of Deep-sea Investigation in the Tasman Sea 
—The Polyzoa’’ (four plates) comes from the pen of Mr. C, 
