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facilities, such as a suitable storeroom, has prevented any 
considerable collection of material for a museum, and the 
difficulties of keeping such free from vermin and decay 
from moisture, etc., are very great. However, efforts are 
being made with the assistance of the Member for the 
district, and already a suitable block of land has been 
made available to the Cairns City Council free of charge, 
for a museum, if this body will make application for a 
loan for this purpose. Meanwhile, our Club is being ap- 
pealed to for all kinds of information concerning the 
identity, etc., of numerous plants and objects of natural 
history. 
In the “Cairns Post” has appeared in each Friday’s 
issue rather more than a column of ‘ “ Current Nature 
Notes,” in which various subjects of natural history of 
particular interest at the time are dealt with. Incident- 
ally, this column is a source of revenue to the Club, be- 
sides being of considerable interest to the readers of the 
paper. Similarly, this Club has contributed in a smail 
measure to the production of “Viewpoint,” an illustrated 
quarterly newspaper published in Townsville, which feat- 
ures many interesting natural history studies of North 
Queensland. 
There are numerous other directions in which the Club 
has interested itself. A number of new species of plants, 
insects, crabs and crayfish have been discovered by its 
members and described. One member is actively engaged 
in cinematography of the Reef which promises immense 
success; with the aid of this Club, another has achieved 
such success at numerous photographic exhibitions abroad 
that he has gained the very high distinction of F.R.S.A. 
Still another member is pioneering the art of colour photo- 
graphy as applied to natural history objects. The Club 
has contributed to exhibitions in the other States as far 
as Adelaide. The Cairns Annual Show has been induced 
to make a special sub-section for native flora in its horti- 
cultural section. The Cairns City Council, half-heartedly 
perhaps, has been induced to label somo.of the trees in its 
streets. The dynamiting of fish has been limited, and the 
spearing, etc., on Green Island has been lessened. Cer- 
tain geographical names have been fixed as the result of 
representations from the Club. The Rhododendron 
Lochae has been placed on the list of protected plants, 
and the exodus of the Cuscus from Cape York Peninsula 
has been checked. 
The above does not exhaust all the activities which 
the Club has done, but surely it can be claimed that it 
has achieved a fair deal in the four years of its existence, 
and it is anticipated that much more will be done in the 
future . 
