The Queensland Naturalist 
November 1949 
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Reports of field excursions were given by various 
members; interesting specimens and photographs were 
tabled. 
MEMBERSHIP. — The loss of four members by 
death- — Drs. A. J. Turner and G. Croll and Messrs. H. 
Dean and Wetherell is recorded with regret. 
Twenty-seven new members have been elected and 
eight resignations have been received. There are now 
1 90 members of the Club. 
NATURE LOVERS’ LEAGUE.— A few certificates 
have been sold. 
“QUEENSLAND NATURALIST.”— Two issues of 
the journal were published. 
GENERAL.— As is the custom of the Club, the 
Council has proposed that suitable areas be reserved 
and that worthy plants and animals be protected, when 
such proposals were considered necessary. 
The matter of the proposed transfer of animals from 
the Botanic Gardens to Wickham Park was dismissed 
and disapproval of the site expressed. As City Council 
Officers were also of this opinion, no further action was 
necessary. 
We noted with pleasure that the Government has 
extended the provisions of the Native Plants Protection 
Act in regard to the Cooktown Orchid ( Dcndrobiirm 
bigibbum and var. phalaenopsis) and the Torres 
Straits Orchid (T)endrobhm s uperbiens) to include 
plants growing on land held under leasehold irom the 
Crown. 
E. E. BAIRD. 
Hon. Secretary. 
REPORT ON EXCURSIONS, 1948 
The Outing in February was set down for- the 
Nudgee Waterhole and Bora Ring, but few members 
were able to make the trip. Those who attended found 
few birds, but many mosquitoes. They were able to 
report that the fence around the Bora Ring had been 
restored and the notice re-erected, but the Ring itself 
had been damaged by soil-carters. Mr. Ken Hai lev 
drove to Cribb Island and reported many waders on the 
beach. 
