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important constituent of eucalyptus is phellandrene and 
-oils containing large quantities of this are now distilled 
for use in the separation of minerals by the flotation 
process, in the manufacture of disinfectants, etc. The 
lecture was illustrated by a number of specimens of 
eucalyptus oils mostly distilled at the Technological 
Museum, Sydney. 
WILD FLOWER SHOW AND NATURAL HISTORY 
EXHIBITION. 
Saturday Afternoon and Evening, 7th September, 1929. 
There was a very fine display of wild flowers from 
-various parts of Queensland and representative collec- 
tions from the other States. In the latter connection 
donations were received from Western Australia (Miss 
E. Arnold and Colonel B. T. Goadby), Adelaide (Mr. 
E. H. Ising, on behalf of the Field Naturalists’ Club of 
South Australia, and Mr. J. F. Bailey, Director, Botanic 
Gardens, Adelaide), Victoria (Mr. J. W. Audas, Curator 
of the National Herbarium, on behalf of the Field Natur- 
alists’ Club of Victoria). Queensland flowers came from 
the Granite Belt (Mesdames Gittens and Slaughter), 
South Coast, Bilinga (Mesdames Nicholson and Baird), 
Burleigh Heads (Mrs. Meyers), Southport (Mrs. Salt- 
marshe and Miss M. Birt), Springbrook (Mjr. W. Rudder), 
Albert River (Mrs. S. E. and Mr. D. Curtis), Tamborine 
Mt. (Mrs. H. Curtis and children of North Tamborine 
School), Amity Point (Mr. T. and Miss H. Welsby), 
Kingston (Miss Bumstead), Rochedale (Mesdames Com- 
rie Smith and Thomson), Sunnybank (Mr. C. T. White), 
The Blunder (Messrs. Densil Curtis, J. Nebe, and W . W. 
Young), Bribie Island (Mrs. Coungeau), North Coast 
(Mrs. A. Thomson and Miss B. Murphy, Messrs. Lance 
Perrv-Keene, and J. Smith). Sprays of Geraldton Wax 
Flower (Chamaelaucium) grown in Brisbane, were shown 
by Mrs. Hammond and Mr. J. C. Brunnich, and a splen- 
did exhibit of Western Australian Wattle (Acacia 
saligna), grown at the Sherwood Arboretum, Brisbane, 
was tabled by Mr. E. W. Bick. A cone of Macrozamia 
Denisonii and a wonderful series of photographs of the 
growing plants were shown by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert 
Curtis, of Tamborine Mt. Shells were exhibited by Mr. 
J. II. Simmonds; coral from the Barrier Reef by Miss 
Bardsley ; moths by Mr. D. Curtis, and from the collection 
of the late Mr. Rowland Illidge. The competition for 
flowers arranged for decorative effect was superintended 
by Mrs. Aubrey Thomson and attracted ten entrants. The 
