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The Queensland Naturalist. 
December, 1926’ 
Mr. Lane-Poole’s collection is particularly interest- 
ing, as he made special efforts to obtain specimens of the 
larger forest trees, plants often neglected by the general 
collector. 
A particularly interesting find, from the point of 
view of plant geography, was that of a new species of' 
Achradotypus, a genus of Sapotaceae only previously 
known from New Caledonia. This has been named by 
Messrs. Francis and White as Achradotypus benefiei from 
the fact that it is a sorcerer’s tree and much reverenced, 
though feared by the natives in consequnce. 
Since 1918 there has been some activity displayed in* 
elucidating the flora of Papua (British New Guinea), 
though the efforts have been spasmodic, and a great deal 
yet remains to be done, for Papua is a country indescrib- 
ably rich in plant forms. 
Queensland Fruit Flies. — At the September meeting 
of the Royal Society of Queensland a paper on Queens- 
land Fruit Flies was read by Mr. Henry Trvon. Twelve 
new species are described belonging to the genera Chae- 
todacus, Dacus, Rioxa and Batrocera. For the common 
Queensland fruit fly (Chaetodacus Trvon i) forty-thre* 
commonly cultivated fruits and twenty-nine native fruits 
are listed as hosts. 
Memorials to the late J. H. Maiden and the late 
Chas. Hedley. — Movements are on foot to commemorate 
the names of these two great Australian naturalists. Tn 
the former case it is proposed to erect a J. H. Maiden 
Memorial Pavilion in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and 
in the latter it has been suggested that the memorial 
might take the form, of a Hedley Lecture to be delivered 
at each session of the Australasian Association of the Ad 
vancement of Science 
