10 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
to be known as Part VII. The part at present under notice 
contains an appendix on ‘‘Materials in Use for the Destruc- 
tion of Noxious Insects.’’ 
Proposrp Camp.—It is proposed to ‘“‘hold’’ a camp at 
Easter. Arrangements for the carrying out of this project 
are now being considered by the Council. As soon as lo- 
cality and details have been perfected members will be duly 
informed. On a former occasion when members went into 
camp, the turn-out was a great success. In the meantime, 
those who regard such a project with favour will materially 
assist if they intimate approval to the Hon. Secretary. 
Appirioys TO THE Liprary.—Geological Survey of 
N.S.W., Vol. VIII. ; Forty-third Annual Report of Museum 
and Lecture Rooms Syndicate, Cambridge; Proc. U. States 
Nat. Museum, XXXIII.-XXXV.; Smithsonian Institute— 
Some New S. American Land Shells; Contributions from 
U.S. National Herbarium, Vol. XII., Parts 5-9; Catalogue 
of Type Specimens of Mammals in the U.S. National Mu- 
seum; A Critical Survey of Troost’s Unpublished MSS. on 
the Crinoids of Tennessee; Observations of Live Whales; 
American Ferns—Group of Dryopteris opposita; Australian 
Photographic Journal, XVIII., Nos. 208-210; Mitth. aus dem 
Zcol. Museum, Berlin; Tasmanian Naturalist, II., Part 2; 
Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria, XXIJI., Part 1; Victorian Natur- 
alist, XXVI., Parts 5-8; Selborne Magazine, April-Dec., 
1909; Dept. Fisheries Annual Report. 
AusTRALIAN Musrum.—One of the new and spacious 
galleries of this institution has now been thrown open to the 
general public, and in this the ethnological student will find 
much to interest him. The collection is almost typically 
Australian, or, at any rate, of Australian interest, for it con- 
tains not only a rare collection of Cook relics, but also much 
illustrative of the handicraft of the Australian aborigine, a 
study of which must dispel the old and oft-quoted fable that 
the blackfellows of this island continent were remarkable, 
chiefly, as being lacking in intellectual power. Judged by 
European: standards, probably they were, yet no one, who 
has studied their habits and bush-craft, their traditions and 
folk-lore, and their marvellous adaptability to circumstances 
and environment, could conscientiously assert that they were 
either dull or uninteresting. Much has been learned and 
made known of late years by capable and enthusiastic an- 
thropologists of the life-history, social and, if such a term be 
permissable, the civic economy of a race soon destined to 
