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The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 1884, vol. i. parts 2, 3, 4.—We are glad to see that this new Society in one of our leading colonies is advancing rapidly. In the parts before us Mr. Tryon describes certain rock-drawings of the aborigines of Queensland, of a class hitherto undescribed (with plates). Mr. C. VV. de Vis, who is one of the most indefatigable contributors, writes on new Australian lizards; on a new form of the genus Therapon; on new Queensland lizards; on a new species of Hoplocephalus; on an apparently new species of Halmaturus; on a new species of Hyla; a description of new snakes with a synopsis of the genus Hoplocephalus; on the fauna of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and a conspect of the genus Heteropus. Mr. Bailey gives instalments of his contributions to Queensland Flora. Mr. Broadbent writes on the migrations of birds at the Cape York peninsula, which is a peculiarly favourite spot for observing the migrations of birds from and to New Guinea, for the passage is shortest here. Ethnology is well represented in the numbers before us, for, besides the paper by Mr. Tryon mentioned above, we have one by Dr. Bancroft on the food of the aborigines of Central Australia, and one by Mr. Duffield on the inhabitants of New Ireland and its archipelago, their fine and industrial arts, customs, and language, especially their tattooing. Mr. Knight describes a new species of Parmelia, and Baron von Müller, the Dendrobium cincinnatum, sp. nov. Mr. Bernays describes exotic fruits new to Queensland. Mr. Pink pleads for the practice of hybridisation of plants; and Dr. Bancroft describes experiments with Indian wheats in Queensland. There are numerous other minor contributions.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 32, 495 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032495b0
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