THE 
QUEENSLAND NATURALIST 
JOURNAL OF THE QUEENSLAND NATURALISTS’ CLUB 
AND NATURE-LOVERS’ LEAGUE 
VOL X FEBRUARY 1937 No. 2 
PROCEEDINGS. 
EVENING MEETING, MONDAY, 20th JULY, 
1936. — The chair was occupied by the President (Mr. J. 
E. Young), and about 40 members were present. Mr. 
G. II. Barker gave a report on the birds seen on the 
excursion to Mount Coot-tha. Dr. E. 0. Marks spoke 
briefly on the geology of the area, and Mr. C. T. White 
on the plants. The principal business of the evening was 
a lecture by Mr. S. L. Everist on the flora of Western 
Queensland. By means of a large series of lantern slides, 
the lecturer dealt with the vegetation observed on a 
journey by car from Brisbane to Cunnamulla via Goondi- 
windi, St. George and Boll on, thence to Charleville, 
Tambo, Blackall, Longreach and Winton. A vote of 
thanks to the lecturer was given by Dr. D. A. Herbert, 
who described the pictures as among the most interesting 
he had seen dealing with the flora of Queensland. Mr. 
Harold Young exhibited a seedling mistletoe attached to 
an orchid. Parasitisation of orchids by mistletoe is 
rare. Mr. Dornbusch, of Warwick, forwarded specimens 
of a knotted wood growth, which was determined as a 
root nodule of pi*ickly-pear (Opuntia inermis). 
EVENING MEETING, MONDAY, 17th AUGUST, 
1936. The President (Mr. J. E. Young) occupied the 
chair, and about thirty members were present. Mr. G. 
If. Barker spoke of the movement being made in some 
quarters for permission to cut trees in National Parks, 
particularly Hoop Pine trees in the Lamington National 
Park, and moved that a letter be sent to the Minister for 
Lands (Hon. P. Pease), stating that members of this Club 
noted with great satisfaction that- he had publicly stated 
that under no circumstances would permission be given 
for commercial exploitation of timber standing in National 
Parks. Mr. J. F. Bailey gave a most interesting lecture 
on palms . illustrating his remarks by a large series of 
lantern slides of Australian palms growing in their natu- 
ral habitats, and of native and exotic palms growing in 
the Botanic Gardens of Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and 
