the Queensland naturalist. 
JOURNAL OF THE QUEENSLAND NATURALISTS’ CLUB 
AND NATURE-LOVERS’ LEAGUE. 
Vol. VI. November, 1928 . No. 6 . 
PROCEEDINGS. 
EVENING MEETING, 25th JULY, 1928.— Mr. D. A. 
Herbert presided. Misses A. Dobbs and U. Twine and 
Messrs. T. Nicholls and E. C. Tommerup were elected 
members. Reports on the recent excursion to Aspley 
were given by Mr. J. O’Neil Brenan (birds), Dr. E. 0. 
Marks, (geology), and Mr. D. A. Herbert (botany). Mr. 
J. Nebe exhibited a number of photographs and stereo- 
scopic views of some of the islands of the Great Barrier 
Reef. 
The principal business of the meeting was a lecture 
by Mr. (J. T. White, Government Botanist, on — 
RECENT BOTANICAL WORK IN THE PACIFIC. 
The lecturer dealt with the floras of New Guinea, 
New Caledonia, and the New Hebrides, to the botany of 
which countries he had paid a good deal of 4 attention 
during recent years. New Guinea is politically divided 
into tttfee territories, viz., Dutch New Guinea, Papua or 
British New Guinea, and the Mandated Territory. As 
regards the Dutch territory several large expeditions have 
been organised under the auspices of the Netherlands 
Government, the most important of these within recent 
years being the expedition of 1907, under Captain H. A. 
Lorentz, and 1912-13, under Captain Hjerderschee. The 
scientific results of these expeditions are contained in a 
large series of volumes published in Holland under the 
title of “Nova Guinea”;, this series is still appearing 
dealing with recent expeditions. One of the most notable 
expeditions to the Dutch territory was the Wollaston 
expedition (British), of 1912, the object of which was to 
study the geography and natural resources of the Snow 
Mountains, and to ascend the highest peak, Mt. Carstenz,- 
which rises to a . height of 15,708 feet. Mr. C. Boden 
