July, 1929 
The Queensland Naturalist 
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The Director of the Museum has very kindly for- 
warded applications for N.L.L. Certificates to your 
sub-committee — mostly received by him from country 
schools, and in every case the certificates were forwarded 
at once. 
All minor matters of correspondence from kindred 
Societies and school teachers were dealt with by the Hon. 
Secretary during the year, and £1/3/9 has been received 
from the sale of N.L.L. Certificates. 
I). A. HERBERT, 
Chairman. 
(Mrs.) W. M. MAYO, 
lion. Secretary. 
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EXCURSION TO CANDLE MOUNTAIN, MAY 4th— 6th. 
1929. Geological Notes, 
(By Dr. E. 0. Marks.) 
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Unfortunately the shortness of our visit was really 
only sufficient to show what an interesting centre Canale 
Mountain is for the geologist, and how profitably a 
considerable time could be spent exploring the vicinity. 
The name mountain is rather flattering, as. its summit 
is about 500 feet above the Stanley River, which is itself 
about 500 feet above the sea level. From the Guest House 
011 the summit an exceptionally beautiful and interesting 
panorama 1 is obtained. At a distance of two or three 
miles (and a considerably greater elevation) the northern 
half of the panorama is formed by the Blackall Range in 
the steep southern slopes of which rise the Stanley and 
its eastern branch, Ewen Creek. 
To the east, across the low ridge at Peachester and 
the lower coast country beyond it, one. sees Caloundra, 
Bribie Passage and Island, with the waters of the Bay 
and Moreton Island sandhids gleaming in the distance. 
To the south-east the Glass House Mountains, with»Beer- 
wah dwarfing the rest of the group, form the chief feature 
in the landscape. To the south and south-west, fifteen 
or twenty miles away, the flat-topped Mt. Mee ' • seen 
across the intervening wide plain of the Stanley Valley 
leading down to Woodford. Over the top of Meant Mee 
