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societies with botanic interests, and usually took charge 
of the botanical excursions of the Queensland Naturalists' 
Club. 
In private life Mr. White was a cheerful tolerant 
soul. He could relate anecdotes by the hundred, with 
never a trace of malice. There was the man who used 
to send him plants regularly and who received his 
answers addressed “The Harem,” until on one occasion 
his handwriting was a little better than usual and it was 
discovered that it was really “The Haven.” The address 
was corrected on the next envelope, and no further 
specimens were submitted; the incentive had gone. Again 
there was (he story of the old prospector who enter- 
tained him at his galvanised iron hut with black tea out 
of a jam tin remarking with old-world courtesy : “Ex- 
cuse the crockery, mister, but while I was absent on my 
vacation, the maid broke me teaset.” Or the man, who 
aghast at some sesquipedalian name on the label in the 
Botanic Gardens, muttered, “A man would have to be 
a blooming Frenchman to understand that.” 
Out on excursions C. T. White w r as in his element. 
Even in country that he had worked over thoroughly 
time after time, he could always find something of new 
interest. In his prime he could walk tremendous dis- 
tances, sleep where night found him, plod through rain 
and mire, climb rugged mountains, and not miss any- 
thing of botanical interest. 
Miss Henrietta Clark, whom he married in 1921, was 
a kindred spirit, a keen naturalist and mountain climber. 
She and her two sisters were the first women to climb 
Crookneck in the Glasshouse Mountains group. That in 
itself was an achievement, but they rode out from Bris- 
bane and back on that occasion on bicycles in the days 
when the road was appalling. Mrs. White has always 
been interested in the Naturalists’ Club, especially in the 
wildflower shows, and is a keen gardener and member of 
the Horticultural Society. They have two daughters, Mrs. 
C. C. Minty and Miss Heather White, B.A., and a small 
grandson. 
D. A. HERBERT. 
