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Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 4: For 1880-81Fig. 3. View of A. From above. A. Large pair, with 14-15 rays, (much enlarged) joined at base. 6. Inner spines, always five.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses...

Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 19The aborigines in whose country Port Darwin is situate are the Larraki'a, of whom Mr. Paul Foelsche has given some interesting particulars in a previous paper. They inhabit a tract of land embracing the seaboard from Shoal Bay to Southport, together with some portion of the country west of that port. At the forty-six mile on the railway line we pass their southern border...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 7: For 1883-84In the absence of palaeontological evidence all identification of rocks based solely on their lithological features is Open to a greater or less amount of doubt, but a faithfully recorded Sequence of conformable strata in any one locality becomes a clue deserving consideration when examining neighbouring districts the topographical ...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 1886, Vol. 8The sectional line runs from Port Wakefield slightly north of east to the Murray Flats beyond Eudunda. From the Dalkey Range to the Hermitage Hill, the beds vary much in strike and dip and one bed is distinctly inverted. One mile east of Rhynie the faulted beds dip north-westerly, and the line of strike is only 25° from that of the section...

Excerpt from Acts of the Parliament of South AustraliaNo. 196. An Act to authorise the making of Conventions between South Australia and New South Wales, and arrangements between South Australia and Victoria, with reference to Border Duties, and to amend the Law relating to the Duties of Customs and the mode of Collection thereof, and for other purposes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic book...

Excerpt from Acts of the Parliament of South AustraliaNo. 196. An Act to authorise the making of Conventions between South Australia and New South Wales, and arrangements between South Australia and Victoria, with reference to Border Duties, and to amend the Law relating to the Duties of Customs and the mode of Collection thereof, and for other purposes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic book...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 6: For 1882-83Mr. Smeaton suggested that it might be well to go further back - to the Sheeps' livers with which the dogs were fed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-o...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 5: For 1881-82Murder is punished with death, except when a native is killed by one of his own tribe, in such case the Offender is punished by spearing him severely but care is taken that he is not mortally wounded. If a native kills one of another tribe, a party of young men is sent out by the tribe of the deceased to kill the murderer if he can ...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 7: For 1883-84Crossing the spur dividing Stony Creek and Limestone Creek, the porphyries are seen to be penetrated by strings and veins of quartz, and in some places to assume an almost vesicular appearance. At lower levels towards Limestone Creek, the sedimentary rocks again appear, consisting of finely laminated slates, sandstones, and interbed...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 5: For 1882-82 A good deal has from time to time been written about the aborigines of Australia, and a vast amount of information on this subject has been gathered from all the settled parts of Australia, but all that is known of the aborigines inhabiting the northern portion of this continent has been furnished by a few persons who have paid on...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 20: For 1895-6 I have endeavored to give a complete list of all the species known to occur in the district of Moreton Bay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of...

Excerpt from Acts of the Parliament of South Australia No. 279. An Act to apply, out of the General Revenue, the sum of Four Hundred Thousand Pounds to the Service of the Three Months ending the Thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. [assented to, August lst, 1883. No. 280. An Act to amend The Electoral Act, Assented to, August 2oth, 1883. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...

Excerpt from The Custom House Handbook: Being the Merchants' and Importers' Guide to the Business of the Customs Department Collector, Chief Inspector of Distilleries, Registrar of Shipping, and Chief Inspector of Kerosiqe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 4: For 1880-81 All three are found among the refuse masses of marine vegetation fringing the beaches, the main bulk of which is supplied by Posidonia, and are popularly included among sea. Weeds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a re...

Excerpt from Acts of the Parliament of South Australia: Anno Septimo Edwardi VII Regis, A. D. 1907 Fees to be taken by Magistrates in South Australia, and for other purposes. [assented to, December 12th, No. 927. An Act to Provide for the Detention and Control of Habitual Criminals. [assented to, December 12th, No. 928. An Act to amend the Pinnaroo Railway Act.' [assented to, December 12th, No. 929. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Re...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 7: For 1883-84 Crossing the spur dividing Stony Creek and Limestone Creek, the porphyries are seen to be penetrated by strings and veins of quartz, and in some places to assume an almost vesicular appearance. At lower levels towards Limestone Creek, the sedimentary rocks again appear, consisting of finely laminated slates, sandstones, and interb...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 1886, Vol. 8 Salsola kali, Linne'. A variety of ¿owers and fruits crowded. Headlike on abbreviated branches, appendages of calyx minute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 1926, Vol. 11 Here I might close my remarks on Dr. Jamieson's paper, but a rather long portion of the contribution is given to a discussion of a subject collateral to the main question but having an in direct bearing upon it. The doctor notes the record of the sud den fall in the ratio of mortality in Adelaide and suburbs from per in 1884 to in 1885 ...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 5: For 1882-82There is no ceremony connected with marriage, in the majority of cases it is arranged when the parties are mere infants, and in many instances female children when born are promised to men of all ages this accounts for so many middle aged and old men having mere children for wives. As soon as the girl arrives at the age of puberty, ...

Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 17 As some ten years have elapsed since the publication of Mr. Tepper's list of South Australian Rhopalocera (Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., 1881), I have deemed it advisable to write the present paper, especially as the list has been considerably augmented by the addition of several interesting species hitherto unrecorded for this colony. It is usually considered, I believe, tha...