THE 
QUEENSLAND NATURALIST 
JOURNAL OF THE QUEENSLAND NATURALISTS’ CLUB 
AND NATURE. LOVERS’ LEAGUE 
VOL VIII. APRIL, 1932 >No. 2 
PROCEEDINGS. 
ANNUAL MEETING, Monday, 18th February, 1932. 
— The President (Mrs. Estelle Thomson) occupied the 
chair and 61 members and friends were present. Miss J. 
Byron (Ashgrove) was elected an ordinary member of the 
Club, and Miss E. Latimer (Nerang), a country member. 
The Annual Report of the Council for the year ended 31st 
January, 1931, was read by the Hon. Secretary (Miss E. 
E. Baird). Reports were read by the Hon. Librarian 
(Mrs. Eva M. Jackson) and Hon. Excursion Secretary 
(Mr. J. Edgar Young). The financial statement as read 
by the Hon. Treasurer (Mr. P. Sylow) showed a credit 
balance of £89/9/2, and £10/17/8 funds in hand of the 
Nature Lovers ’ League. Officers for the year were elected 
as set forth on the inner front cover page. The retiring 
President gave an address on “The Contribution made by 
some Women to the Study of Botany. ” Mr. el. Nebe 
showed a set of very fine moving pictures of natural life 
on the Great Barrier Reef. Mrs. Margaret Smith ex- 
hibited a Case Moth and Mrs. H. Curtis sent several 
botanical specimens from Tamborine Mountain. 
EVENING MEETING, Monday, 21st March.— The 
President (Mr. J. Nebe) occupied the chair, and about 
thirty members were present. Miss M. B. Ralston, Miss 
G. Cameron and Miss H. James were elected members of 
the Club. Mr. C. T. White (Government Botanist) gave 
an address illustrated by mounted specimens on 
“Botanising in Tasmania.” Exhibits included (1), a 
drawing book of Australian birds, received from the Gould 
League of Victoria; (2) two' cases (by kind permission of 
the Department of Agriculture and Stock), showing mount- 
ed specimens, a Varied Triller and Bee-eater, by Mr. G. H. 
Barker; (3) a pineapple showing a number of terminal 
tufts of leaves in place of the usual single one, by Mr. G. 
IT. Barker; (4) a yam and leaves of Vitis opaca , a native 
grape by Mr. Ken. Jackson; (5) corals from the Great 
Barrier Reef, by Mr. J. E. Nebe; (6) aboriginal implements 
collected in the Upper Albert District by Mr. J. Edgar 
Young; and (7) several botanical specimens from Tam- 
