March, 1953 
THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST 
Forty-five 
(1) To preserve intact in their 
natural condition the exist- 
ing national p arks of 
Queensland; and to secure 
the reservation of suitable 
areas. 
(2) To educate public opinion 
to a fuller appreciation of 
the necessity and value of 
national parks. 
(3) To form a link between the 
public and the administra- 
tion dealing with the 
national parks. 
(4) To co-operate with other 
organisations having the 
same or similar objects. 
(5) To assist in the enforcement 
of protective regulations 
concerning national parks. 
It is noteworthy that this Associa- 
tion arranges various trips at week- 
ends, ranging from strenuous to 
easy, in order that all ages may be 
catered for. It holds eleven field 
outings annually and, recently, 
they had a very extensive Northern 
Field Outing which embraced a 
good deal of practical work in the 
way of botanical and other types 
of observation and many new 
species were found. A very compre- 
hensive report of this excursion 
was published and it makes excel- 
lent reading. 
This Association has been re- 
sponsible for many publications 
which deal in a very thorough way 
with Queensland's national parks. 
From the information I have, 
most naturalist societies do not en- 
list the aid of any special adver- 
tising methods but rely on member- 
ship growing spontaneously. It is 
not always true, of course, that the 
numerical strength of any given 
body is indicative of its true 
strength, but members must be 
kept up to replace those who leave 
or resign for various reasons. 
Finally, I will gladly show any- 
one who wishes to see them, the 
letters, pamphlets, etc., from which 
I have drawn for the above survey. 
BOOK REVIEWS 
Flora of the British Isles. By 
A. R. Clapham, T . G. Tutin and 
F. F. Warburg. (Cambridge Uni- 
versity Press, 1952. i + 1591 pp.). 
English price 50s. net. Cloth. 
The publication of this new 
Flora is a very important event for 
botanists in the British Isles; we 
shall try to assess its effect in Aus- 
tralia. Ihe book is written by 
three progressive University teach- 
ers with some expert help and de- 
signed for the student and field 
botanist, with type-setting, descrip- 
tions, numerous abbreviations and 
thin, strong paper all aimed at 
condensation; the price of 50s. 
sterling is the one undesirable 
exception to this process and 
makes us appreciate the low cost 
of our South Australian Flora and 
Fauna handbooks. Illustrations 
are few and left for a future 
volume. 
The standard floras it will re- 
place are surprisingly old — Ben 
tham’s Handbook of the British 
Flora (1858); J. D. Hooker’s Stu- 
dent’s Flora of the British Islands 
(1870) and Babing ton’s Manual of 
British Botany (1843), all with 
later revisions. Since these books 
were conceived, much more is 
known and included here about 
the species of the region (inten- 
sively studied since John Ray’s 
time for 300 years at least), and 
some of the new facts are basic to 
an understanding of the relation- 
ships between species and sub- 
