The 
Queensland Naturalist 
The Organ of the Field Naturalists’ Club 
and its Branches. 
VoL. 1. December, 1913. No. 12, 
PROCEEDINGS. 
ANNUAL MEETING, 30th JANUARY, 1913. 
Chairman : R. Hulsen. Attendance, 26. 
Annual Report: The report of the Committee for 1912 
was read and adopted. 
Presiderdial Address: The retiring President delivered 
an address on “Heredity'' (vide Transactions, page 267). 
Office Bearers: The election of office-bearers for 1913 
resulted as follows :■ — President, H. A. Longman, Vice- 
President, R. Illidge : Committee, Miss M. Garraway, Miss 
K. Sheldon, W. R. Colledge, F. Burtt, H. Hacker, and R. 
L. Higgins ; Hon. Secretary : C. T. White ; Hon. Excursion 
Secretary, Professor S. B. J. Skertchly ; Hon. Lanternist, 
W. M. Tanner. 
In October, Mr. R. Illidge resigned, and his position was 
taken by Mr. W. R. Colledge, and the vacancy on the com- 
mittee thus made filled by Miss Freda Bage, M.Sc. 
EVENING MEETING, 27th FEBRUARY, 1913. 
Chairman : H. A. Longman. Attendance 22. 
Members elected : W. Byram, F. A. English. 
Exhibits : Mr. E. H. Shearwin showed a series of the 
moth Anthercea Eucalypti, and read notes on the life history 
of same (vide Transactions, p. 277). By Mrs. Longman — 
specimen of the wood-boring moth {Xyleutes liturata). By 
W. M. Tanner — Immature female of a rather rare Phasmid, 
By R. Higgins — Specimens of Dictyophora multicolor — one 
of the Phalloids or Stinkhorn fungi. Botanical specimens 
were exhibited (1) from the Blue Mountains and Port Jackson, 
by Miss H. Clark : (2) from Stanthorpe, by Major J. R. 
Sankey ; and (3) from Clermont, by Mr. H. A. Longman; 
notes on' these collections were read by Mr. C. T. White, 
