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The Queensland Naturalist. August, 1937. 
TWO NEW DENDROBS FOR NORTH QUEENSLAND. 
ADDITIONAL NOTE. 
By an oversight no locality was given under the de- 
scription of Dendrobium Carrii Rupp and White, pub- 
lished in the last issue of the “Queensland Naturalist” 
(p. 26). This should be Mt. Spurgeon, T. Carr and C. T. 
White (flowering specimens), Sept., 1936. 
In reference to the other species described: 
D. Fleckeri. — Dr. Flecker has written to the Rev. H. 
M. R. Rupp to the effect that his first specimens were col- 
lected in the jungle at Platypus Creek, Upper Mossman 
River in September, 1935, and that Mt. Spurgeon proper 
does not extend eastwards into the heavier rain-forest 
belt at Platypus Creek, wherei the orchid was collected. — 
Editor. 
THE FAUNA OF THE LAMINGTON 
NATIONAL PARK. 
By J. EDGAR YOUNG. 
When the Government of Queensland decided to re- 
serve the land for the Lamington Park, they performed a 
deed which will long be appreciated by the people for pre- 
serving to the public for all time a glorious piece of 
country in its state of natural beauty. 
It is owing almost entirely to the efforts of two men 
that this is so. 
The late Mr. R. M. Collins, M.L.A., visited it in 1896. 
and considering it an ideal place for a health resort and 
scenic reserve, urged its reservation (but not success- 
fully) until his death in 1913. In the meantime, Mr. 
Romeo Lahey had also been working to the same end for 
some years, and it is undoubtedly due to his untiring 
efforts that the park was eventually gazetted in 1915. 
Mr. Lahey was the first president of the National 
Parks Association, and still holds that position. 
The park is no doubt one of the finest in Aus- 
tralia, having great scenic beauty, many fine water- 
falls in rugged gorges, a wealth of vegetation, including 
its ancient Antarctic beeches, and glorious floral attrac- 
tions in season. Its animal life, and its undoubted number 
of rare and beautiful birds, etc., all help to make its 
47,000 acres of scrub or rain forest, its grass and timbered 
mountain sides, and even an area of swamp and heath, one 
of the most interesting areas of its kind in Australia. 
It is with the various forms of the fauna, or animal 
life that I wish to deal for a short time in this article, 
