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The Queensland Naturalist 
November, 194$ 
EVENING MEETING, 3rd May, 1943.— The Presi- 
dent, Mr. C. T. White, occupied the chair, and about 23 
members were present. Mr. C. Schindler and Master 
Robert Adams were elected to membership. Reports on 
the Easter Camp, held through the kindness of Dr. and 
Mrs. Marks at Camp Mountain, were given by Dr. Marks 
(geology), Mr. Blake and Mr. White (botany) and Miss 
Baird (birds). Miss Carrick tabled specimens of mosses, 
including Sphagnum ; Miss Marks exhibited specimens of 
mosquitoes ; Mr. Blake exhibited a flowering branch of the 
blue quandong, Elaeocarpus grandis, and a germinating 
seed of a mistletoe ; Mr. White exhibited peculiar felt-like 
masses of fungal kyphae taken from trees, some bracket 
fungi, and a fungus of stone-like appearance. 
EVENING MEETING, 17th May, 1943.— The Presi- 
dent, Mr. C. T. White, occupied the chair and about 100 
members and friends were present. Reports on the 
excursion to Salisbury were deferred. Mr. J. T. Robinson 
showed coloured moving pictures taken in Taronga Park 
Zoo and in the Gulf country of North Queensland. 
EVENING MEETING, 21st June, 1943.— The Presi- 
dent, Mr. White, occupied the chair, and about 40 mem- 
bers and friends were present. Reports on the excur- 
sions to Salisbury and to Pine Mountain were given by 
Dr. Marks (Geology) and by Mr. Blake and Mr. White 
(Botany) ; Mr. White tabled specimens of a few species, 
notably Cupaniopsis Shirley ana and Stephania aculeata. 
Dr. A. Wade gave a lecture on “Oil and the World War’ 7 , 
pointing out that oil is important as a source of synthetic 
rubber and plastics, as well as fuel. A film was screened 
showing the first crude methods of obtaining oil. 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR ENDING JANUARY, 
1943. 
Ladies and Gentlemen, 
The Council of the Queensland Naturalists’ Club 
presents the thirty-seventh annual report of the Club’s 
activities. 
MEETINGS. — There have been ten evening meetings, 
ten field excursions and ten Council meetings during the 
year. Attendance at Council Meetings has been as fol- 
lows; _Dr. Marks, 10; Mr. White, 8; Miss Clarke, 9;- Miss 
