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The Queensland Naturalist July, 1040 
I would also like to thank all those members who have 
so generously contributed books and magazines to the 
Library during the year. 
EVA M. (Mrs. G. L.) JACKSON, 
lion. Librarian. 
LEAVES FROM A GARDEN DIARY. 
Presidential Address delivered 18th February, 1040, 
by G. L. Jackson. 
I must confess that the subject of a suitable talk from 
me for this occasion has caused me considerable thought. 
My interest in natural subjects as studied and 
observed by this Club has always been a general one, and 
although I have taken up no special line, that interest has 
always been a very keen one. 
fn thinking over these facts, therefore, my mind 
travelled over the years of my association with the Club, 
and I wished that I had kept a diary of the many inter- 
esting experiences 1 have had with the Club during those 
years. 
As I thought thus, my eyes glanced (rather casually, 
1 must admit) over the back garden. 
Now, don’t run away with the idea that that garden 
is at all out of the ordinary. It isn’t. It’s a rather let- 
r un-wild” sort of place — just ordinary backyard size — 
with a fair number of wild plants and ferns trying to 
adapt themselves to their surroundings. 
Looking at these plants, etc., I realised that here was, 
in a way, a DIARY — because many of them had been 
brought home from Club outings and persuaded to live, 
perpetual reminders of pleasant and informative expedi- 
tions. 
On one tree is a huge staghorn, reminiscent of a 
week-end with the Club years ago, at Candle Mountain. 
(It was about the size of a five shilling piece when 
taken from its original nursery on a mossy old log.) 
On that occasion, many members will remember the 
rather rough journey in the mail truck up from Beerwali, 
and the strange little sledge on which the boarding-house 
keeper conveyed our luggage up the last stage to the house. 
Then, in the morning, the marvellous cloud effects 
seen from the balcony of the house. 
Many incidents, both from a naturalist’s point of 
view and otherwise, served to make this trip memorable, 
but I think it is indelibly fixed in our minds by the fact 
that Dr. Marks picked up the half of a stone axe, after 
