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Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 19 The 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 bord...

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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. 6: For 1882-83 Mr. Smeaton suggested that it might be well to go further back - to the sheeps' livers with which the dogs were fed. 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, Vol. 10: For 1886-7Of the hind body segments 1-4 are infuscate except a narrow apical margin, five has only the base infuscate, Six and seven are entirely blackish.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....

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 1885-6, Vol. 9 Length of time. During almost all of its last apparition the general appearance was that of a Series of beautiful festoons, sometimes depending from the northern dark belt, but usually throwing out pillars to the southern and more conspicuous of the two. The interior of these festoons was generally beauti fully White by contrast with t...

Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 7: For 1883-84 I have never advocated with any earnestness that climatic chan s Of high value are due to geological rather than cos mi causes, and in a course Of public lectures, delivered last year at the University, I applied Dr. Croll's hypothesis to the elucidation of certain physiographic peculiarities of Central Australia, which are co-ord...

Excerpt from The South Australian Naturalist, Vol. 1: The Journal of the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of South Australia, November, 1919 Broken Hill. - Reference was made in our last issue to the desire for an extension of the Field Naturalists' work into the country districts, and arrangements have been approved by the Committee for the giving of lectures and addresses by members in country centres. Nuriootpa will possibly...