THE 
QUEENSLAND NATURALIST 
JOURNAL OF THE QUEENSLAND NATURALIST’ CLUB AND 
NATURE-LOVERS’ LEAGUE 
VOL. VII. JULY 1931 No. VI. 
PROCEEDINGS 
EVENING MEETING, Monday, 20th October, 1930. 
■ — The President (Mr. C. T. White) occupied the chair 
and there was a good attendance of members and visitors. 
The Excursion Secretary reported that owing to wet 
weather the excursion to Castra had to be abandoned. Mr. 
J. Nebe, who visited the locality later, however, tabled a 
collection of forty specimens of wild flowers and ferns 
from there. A large collection of plants from sandstone 
hills at Upper Albert made on the occasion of the Club’s 
visit there at the end of August was staged by the Presi- 
dent, who reported the finding of a wattle apparently new 
to science. Dr. E. 0. Marks spoke on the geology of the 
area. A report on the birds observed at Sandgate when 
the Club entertained members of the Royal Australasian 
Ornithologists’ Association was given by Mr. G. II. 
Barker. A general report on the excursion to Enoggera 
Reservoir was given by the lion. Excursion Secretary 
(Mr. J. E. Young). Specimens of potato fruits from 
Bribie Island, flowers of a double snapdragon, and speci- 
mens of a vegetable caterpillar were shown by Dr. D. A. 
Herbert. Some rare insects, including stone flies, butter- 
flies and Neuroptera collected near Cedar Creek were 
exhibited by Mr. L. Franzen. A couple of flowering spikes 
of the Gum Orchid (Cymbidium suave) were shown by 
Mr. J. II. Simmonds. Mr. J. II. Simmcnds, Jnr., showed 
young barnacles on the gills of a crab a very 
unusual habitat, also nitrogen gathering nodules 
from the roots of Cowpea and Mauritius Bean, the 
latter being exceptionally large. Mr. J. E. Young showed 
spec' mens of the fruits and seeds of the Annatto (Bixa 
Orellana) used by the natives for painting mats, and two 
boxes of insects from New Guinea, also a few local insects 
of special interest. Mrs. Estelle Thomson showed stereo- 
scopic photographs of ground orchids (Corysanthes) made 
by Mrs. Eaves (Victoria) and photographs of the White 
Throated Warblers’ nest and of the Tongue Orchid (Den- 
drobium linguaeforme) taken at Eight Mile Plains by Mr. 
W. J. Sanderson, also an especially large plant of Dianella 
laev's from Tugun. Mr. F. O. Nixon exhibited seven eggs 
of the Long-necked Tortoise. Mr. IT. G. Barnard comment- 
