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The Queensland Naturalist. 
December, 1926 
vious years. As it was only possible this year to secure 
a comparatively small hall, the committee were reluc- 
tantly compelled to omit the general natural history 
•exhibits and devote the whole of the available space to 
wild flowers and wild flower photographs. Flowers were 
received from Mrs. S. and Mr. D. Curtis (Albert River), 
Mrs. H. Curtis and Mr. C. Geissmann (Tambourine Moun- 
tain), Miss M. Birt (Molendinar), Mr. Thos. Welsby 
(Stradbroke Island), Mr. J. E. Young (Brisbane), Mrs 
C. A. Messmer (Sydney), Misses O’Connor and Heeschen. 
Mr. J. C. Brunnich, Mrs. C. T. White, and from the Head 
Teachers of the State Schools at Russell Island, Coochin 
Greek, Caloundra, Thulimbah, Stanthorpe, Mullet Creek, 
and Elimbah. A beautiful series of coloured photographs 
of Australian Wild Flowers, tabled by Mr. R. L. Higgins 
was much admired. An album of photographs of wild 
flowers, taken on the excursion to Cowan Cowan (More- 
ton Island), was forwarded by Mrs. Herbert Curtis. 
Mr. E. W. Bick (Botanic Gardens), lent specimen native 
plants for decorative purposes. 
SPECIAL MEETING, TUESDAY, 28th SEPTEM- 
BER, 1926: — The President (Dr. E. 0. Marks) occupied 
the chair. The evening was devoted to a lecturette by 
Mr. A. H. Chisholm (Past President) on the activities of 
members of the Naturalists’ Club of New South Wales, 
and similar bodies in the mother State. In the course of 
his remarks Mr. Chisholm laid special stress on the need 
for a strict watch on National Parks and Reserves. 
EVENING MEETING, MONDAY, 18th OCTOBER 
1926: — The President (Dr. E. 0. Marks) occupied the 
•chair. Mr. E. W. Bick, who had been appointed the 
Club’s representative at the Eighteenth Meeting of the 
Australasian Association for the Advancement of 
Science, held at Perth in August, gave a report on the 
congress. He also gave a few general notes, and exhibited 
a number of photographs and a series of mounted bo tan 
leal specimens, illustrative of the flora of different places 
visited in Western Australia. A report of the botany 
of the excursion to Elimbah was given by Mr. C. T. 
White. Dr. E. O. Marks spoke on the geological features 
of the Elimbah-Glass House Mountains district. A re- 
port on the botany of the excursion to Nudgee was given 
~by Mr. D. A. Herbert. Fruits of a 4 4 Native Pome- 
granate” (Capparis) and flowers of an Indian Orchid 
(Cymbidium Lowii) were tabled by Mr. Young. 
