INDEX Names of contribllfors are set in small capitals. A million years on the D a rling Downs, 232 Tindale, N. B., and Lindsay, H. A.: Ranga- Aboriginal exh!bits at the Museum, new, 279 tira (The High One) , J 32 Aboriginal rehcs of the H awkesbury sand- Boomerangs, 20, 343 stone, 3151 Borers, timber, marine, 211 Aboriginal rock shelters, survey of, 348 Botany Bay, bird habitats of, 173 Aborigines, the st ~~nci l s of the, 25 BOWEN, K. G.: Victorian goldfields, 406 A n:tspides, 63 BRERF.TON, J. LE GAY: The way of life of the Ancestor worship among the Melanesians, 147 slater, 99 Andamooka opal field , 389 Brimstone, fire and, 87 Animal!, central Austra lia, 84; New Zealand. BROWNE, W. R .: The geology of the Sydney 21; unique south-western Australian, 152 district, 262 "Animals with Backbonl!s'' exhibit, 127, 199 Brush-tailed Possum, 235 Anseranas semipalmara ( Latham), 314 CALAJlY, J. H.: The numbat of south-western Ant-eater, Banded, 143 Anthony Musgrave, obituary, 101 Australia, 143 Cape York Peninsula, expedition to, 362 Ascodipteron, 183 CARNF., P. B.: Life and habits of the sawfly, Australia: Char!e.s Darwin in, 120; gemstones 65 ol, 275; recent trends in oil exploration Carnivorous plants, 59 in, 400 CAROLJN, R.: Colourful Plant Life on Sand­ Australia n barnacles, 116 stone and Shale, 258; Pollination of the Australian ~ird-banding scheme ( l953-60) , Proteaceae, 37 l 222 Carpet Snakes, beat conservation in, 313 Australian Goannas, 71 CARRICK, ROBERT: The Australian Bird-band- Australian native plants. cultivation of, 13 ing Scheme, 153-60, 222 Caterpillar, " double-headed'', 231 "Backbones, Animals with,'' (exhibit), 127 Cetaceans, 42 BAILEY, S. W., DAY, M. F., and NORRIS, K. R.: C HALMERS, R. 0.: Mineral Wealth of North­ Uses of Radio-activity in Entomology west Queensland, 30; Fire and Brimstone, and lnsect Pest Control, 291 87; Kalgoorlie, El Dorad~ of the West. Banded Ant-eater, 143 139· Gemstones of Australia, 275; How to Barnacles. some Australian, 116 Rec~gnize Meteorites. 358; Hill End. Barramundi. north Australia's finest food fish. Then and Now, 377; World's Largest 55 . Pitchblende Specimen at Museum. 395; Bat, Long-fingered, remarkable paras.te of, 183 Ornamental Stones of New South Wales. Bats, Vampire, 354 403 Baxter. R. E., obituary. 68 Charles Da rwin in Australia, 120 BIRCH. L. C.: Genetics a nd Evolution. 123 Chelepteryx collesi, 340 Bird-banding scheme, Austra lian. 1953-60. C helonians, snakes and lizards, 250 222 Cirripedia, 117 Bird habitats of Botany Bay, 173 C lass in the Museum's Hallstrom Theatre, 62 Bird-identification exhibit. 30 I Coconut, or Robber, Crab, 283 Birds a nd their observers. 50 Coequosa triangularis, 231 Birds o f Sydney, 24 1 COGGER HAROLO G.: Sea-snakes, 37: Aus­ Bird-watchers' clubs. 50 traiian Goannas. 71: Crocodiles a nd their Birgus htlro, 28~ Kin, 200; Snakes. Lizards and Cbelonians. Blue Wren. 287 250; An Expec.Jition to Cape York Pen­ BOOK R EV IEWS: insula. 362 Child. J. : Australian Sea Shells, 122 Colour slides o f Museum exhibits, 269 Coppleson, V. M .: Shark Attack, 109 Colourful plant life on sandstone and shale. Der-artment of National Development, Can- 258 berra: Atlas of Austra lia n Resource.s­ Corroboree Frog. 190 Mineral Industry M ap a nd Geolog1cal C rab Robber or Coconut, 283 Map, 265 "Crahs' Eyes'' were a mediaeval "cure-all", Gillett Keith and McNeill , Frank: The Grea t 28 B~rrier Reef a nd Adjacent Isles, 157 Crayfishes, fre s hwat~r . ~ 17 Heuvelmans, Bernard: On the Track of Un­ C rocodiles and the1r km, 200 known Animals, .121 C rustacea, syncarid, 63 Hokuryu-Kan Publishing Co., Japan: En­ C ultivation of Australia n native plants, 13 cyclopaedia Zoologica. 290 DAILY, B.: Thy/acoleo, the Extinct M arsupial Lindsay, H. A. and Tindale, N. B.: Ra nga- Lion, 163 tira (The High One) . 132 .. McCarthy, F. D .: Austra lia's Abongmes. Dangerous m a rine animals, 182 Their Life a nd Culture. 16 Da rling Downs, a million years on the, 232 McNeill Frank and Gillell, Keith: The Great Darwin and the evolution of man, 110 Bar~ier Re~f and Adjacent Isles. 157 Darwin Charles: Life and work of, 105 ; in Stirton, R. A . : Time, Life and M an, the Au'stralia, 120; special exhibit at Museum, Fossil Record. I 19 122 Lindsay, H. A., and Tindale. N . B.: Rangatira DAVIES, S. J. J . F.: Magpie Goose BehaviOur, (The High One). 132 314 410 I NDEX DAY, M. F., BAILEY, S. W. and NORRIS, K R.: GILES, E. T.: Earwigs, 324 Uses of Radio-activity in ~mology Goannas, 7 1 and Insect-pest Control, 291 Gold, at Kaloorlie, 139 Delena cancerides, 17 Goldfields, Victorian, 406 Delphinidae, 42 Goose, Magpie, behaviour of. 314 Desmodontidae, 354 GRAHAM, GEoRGE: Mintibi, Opal Field of the Desmodus rotundus, 354 Future, 393 Director of Museum, tour by, 193 Greenstone, New Zealand, 381 Display of soft-bodied animals, new Museum Gudgeons, freshwater, of temoerate Australia, technique for, 338 332 - Dolphins and porpoises, 42 "Double-headed" caterpillar, 231 Habitats, bird, of Botany Bay, 173 DRUMMOND, F. H.: The Syncarid Crustacea, a HALL, L. R.: Recent Trends in Oil Explora- Living Link with Remote Geological ages. tion in Australia, 400 63 Hallstrom Theatre, 62 Hamersley Range, museum expedition to. 94 Earwigs, 324 HARRIS, THISTLr., Y.: The Cultivation of Aus- Eggs, flatworm, 170 tralian Native Plants, 13 Entomology, uses of radio-activity in, 29 1 Hawkesbury sandstone district, Aboriginal EvANS, J. W.: The Life and Work of Charles relics ot. 319 Darwin, 105; Fossil Insects, 294 Head-hunters of Oceania. 76 Evolution and Radiation of Mammals, 184 Heads, preservation of, ·among the Melanes­ Evolution, genetics and, 123 ians, 149 Evolution of man, Darwin and the, 110 HrcKMAN, V. V. : Huntsman Spider, its H abits Evolution, the role of islands in, 128 and Life History, 17 Exh ibit. bird-identification, 30 l Hill End, then and now, 377 Exhibits, new Aboriginal, 279 H[NDWOOD, K. A.: The Birds of Sydney, 241 Expedition to Cape York Peninsula, 362 Holmes, William, the Museum's first custodian, Expedition to the Hamersley Range, 94 306 Fauna preservation faces a crucial period, 9 How to Recognize Meteorites, 358 Fauna, rare, protection of, 331 Huntsman Spider, habits and life history, 17 Fauna! reserves, 9 Hydrophiidae, 37 F ire and brimstone, 87 Fish, Barramundi, 55 Increase in magazine price, 216, 272, 305 F ishes, freak, 298 Insect fauna of the Sydney area, 270 Fishes, migrations of, 158 Insect migration, 350 Flatworm eggs, 170 Insect-pest control, uses of radio-activity in. Flesh-eating plants, 59 291 FLETCHER, H. 0.: A Giant Marine Reptile Insects. fossil. 294 from the Cretaceous Rocks of Queensland, "Invertebrate Tree" exhibit ("These Are Inver­ 47; Turtles of the Past, 191; Fossils of the tebrates"), 54, 1 J 5 Sydney District, 254 Invertebrates, land and freshwater, of the Syd- Fly, laglaisia, 166 ney district, 302 Fly, Stilt-leggt!d, or Neriid, 265 Islands, role of in evolution, 128 FOCKEN, CHARLES: The Radiocarbon Dating Isoptera, 228 Method, 327 Fossil Insects, 294 Kalgoorlie. El Dorado of the west, 139 Fossil insect research, 162 KEAST, ALLEN : Relict Animals and Plants of Fossils: From thc Darling Downs, 232; of the M acdonnell Ranges, 81; the Role of the Sydney district, 254 Islands in Evolution, 12H; the Unique Francois, Donald, American Fulbright scholar. Plants and Animals of South-western Aus­ 12 tralia. 152 FRANCOIS, DONALO D.: Freshwater Crayfi shes, KNIGHT, 0. LE M.: Andamooka Opal Field. 2 17 389 Freak fishes, 298 Koala management in Victoria, 178 Freshwater crayfishes, 217 Kronosaurus queenslandicus, 47 Freshwater gudgeons of temperate Australia, 332 Laglaisia fly, 166 F reshwater invertebrates of tbe Sydney dis- Land and freshwater invertebrates of the trict, 302 Sydney district, 302 F rog, Corroboree, 190 Late.\· calcarifer, 55 Gall and predaceous wasps. 167 Life and habits of the sawfly, 65 Gastroliths, 28 Life and work of Charles Darwin, LOS GAY, F. J.: Some Aspects of the Life of the " Life Through the Ages'' (coloured chart) . Termite, 228 261 ' 282, 318 Geebu!lg H awk Moth, 231 Lizards, snakes and chelonians, 250 Gemstones of Australia, 275 Lord Howe Island, natural history of. 207 Genetics and Evolution. 123 McALPINE, D Avm K.: Gall and Predaceous Geology of the Sydney district, 262 Wasps, 167; Mayflies. L96; Rich and Giant marine reptile from the Cretaceous rocks Varied Insecr Fauna, 270; Trigger Plants. of Queensland, 47 297 JNDEX 411 MCCARTHY, FREDERLCK D.: Stencils of the 269; new Aboriginal exhibits, 279; Aborigines, 25; H ead-hunters of Oceania, school class at, 286; world's largest pitch­ 76; Ancestor Worship Among the Mela­ blende specimen at, 395 nesians. 147; New Aboriginal Exhibits at Musgrave, Anthony, obituary, 101 the Museum, 279; Aboriginal Relics of the Myrmecobius, 143 Hawkesbury Sandstone, 319; The Boom­ Natural history of Lord Howe Island, 207 erang, 343 Naturalists' Society's 58th anniversary, 27 Macdonnell Ranges, relict animals and plants Neophocaena, 42 of, 8 1 Neopilina, a molluscan missing link, 133 McGtLL, ARNOLD R.: Bird Habitats of Botany Neriid or Stilt-legged F ly, 265 Bay, 173 New Aboriginal exhibits at the Museum, 279 MACINTOSH, N. W. G.: Darwin and the Evolu­ New wing: To be built at Museum, 8; opened tion of Man, 110 by Premier, 22 1; photo of, 245 MACKAY, Rov D.: New Museum Technique for New cave-dwelling shrimps found, 86 Displaying Soft-bodied Animals, 338 New curator at Museum, 157 McMICHAEL, DONALD F.: These Shellfish Are New exhibit of invertebrates, 54 Good to Eat. 90; Neopilina, A Moll uscan New Museum techinque for displaying soft- Missing Li nk, 133; Pearls, the Jewels of bodied animals, 338 the Sea, 385 New name for magazine, 344, 402 M cM ICHAEL, D.