THE 
QUEENSLAND NATURALIST 
JOURNALOF THE QUEENSLAND NATURALISTS’ CLUB 
AND NATURE-LOVERS’ LEAGUE 
VOL IX APRIL, 1936 No. 6 
PROCEEDINGS. 
EVENING MEETING, 19th AUGUST, 1935.— The 
Chair was occupied by the President, Mr. G. H. Barker, 
and about 33 members were present. Misses L. J. Heath 
and E. Simpson were elected members of the Club. The 
principal business of the evening were two lectures on 
North-western Queensland, the first by Mr. J. E. Young 
on general features, with particular reference to zoology 
and larger fossils; the second by Mr. S. T. Blake on the 
botany of the region. Mr. Blake illustrated his remarks 
by a series of very fine lantern slides and by a number of 
specimens of grasses, sedges and other plants, some of 
which had not previously been recorded for the State. 
Dr. Malaher exhibited a book of notes on birds in manu- 
script by John Gilbert, collected for John Gould. 
WILDFLOWER SHOW, SEPTEMBER 14th. 
Owing largely to heavy rain at the beginning of the 
week the flowers were not so abundant as in some pre- 
vious years, but the specimens received were good and 
varied. They included specimens from Rochedale (Mrs. 
Estelle Thomson), Sunnybank (Miss B. Sheldon,) Badgen 
(Mr. K. Baird), Eumundi (Orchids from Miss Ball), 
Coolum (Mrs. Yabsley), Crohamhurst (Mr. Inigo Jones, 
flowers of Alpkilonia Petr id ), Rockhampton (Mr. Barn- 
bard, flowers of Dcndrobium undulatum ), Bribie Island 
(Miss Davies), Stradbroke Island (Mi. Ahlberg), Tam- 
borine Mountain (Mrs. H. Curtis), Albert River, a very 
comprehensive collection (Mr. and Mrs. D. Curtis), 
Oanungra (Miss Toms), Tugun (Mr. G. II. Barker), 
Cudgen (Mrs. and Miss Clark). Thulimbah (Mrs. 
Slaughter). 
Interstate specimens consisted of a donation from 
Miss S. Y. Harris, Sydney, a collection of Victorian plants 
from the Field Naturalists’ Club, Melbourne, and of 
South Australian plants from Mrs. L. E. Page, Myponga, 
and a parcel of flowers representative of the Sydney sand- 
