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The Queensland Naturalist May, 1946 
EVENING MEETING, 19th March, 1945. — The Pre- 
sident, Mr. W. Arundell, occupied the chair, and about 60 
members were present. Mr. Noel Frazer was elected to 
ordinary membership and Kenneth Waee, Leslie Wace. 
and Ivor Filmer were elected to junior membership. The 
excursion to Saint Lucia was reported upon by Mr. C. T. 
White with an exhibit of several plants, by Master Ivor 
Filmer who reported twenty-nine birds, and by Master 
Garth Filmer, who showed spiders and a phasmid. Mrs. 
G. L. Jackson exhibited a siliceous sponge. Mr. A. R. 
B rittj.1)] ecombe gave a lecture on “Plant Resistance as a 
means of Insect Control.” 
EVENING MEETING, 16th April, 1945.— The Pre- 
sident, Mr. W. Arundell, occupied the chair and about 50 
members were present. Mr. Guymer was elected to ordin- 
ary membership and Master Garth Filmer to junior mem- 
bership. The lion. Librarian expressed thanks to Miss 
MacCallum for the gift of the book “Place Names in 
Queensland, New Zealand and the Pacific” and to Miss 
Trundle for “Orchids of Victoria.” Reports on the 
Easter camp at Camp Mountain were given by Dr. E. 0. 
Marks (geology), Mr. C. T. White (botany), Ivor Filmer 
(ornithology), and Miss E. N. Marks (entomology). Mr. C. 
T. White reported on the afternoon excursion to Kingston. 
Mr. J. E. Young spoke of bora rings. Miss Holland 
reported having seen a flying-fox at 4 p.m. at Toowong. 
Exhibits were tabled by Dr. Marks (specimens of granite 
and gold-ore from Camp Mountain), Mr. White (plants 
from the neighbourhood of Camp Mountain), Miss Marks 
(a mav-fly from Camp Mountain and a cup moth case 
from Kingston), Mr. Rowley (photographs of the Easter 
excursion), Mrs. Jackson (a land— shell from Tamborine 
Mountain), and Mr. Carlton (a spray of thorn-apple). 
EVENING MEETING, 21st May, 1945.— The chair 
was occupied by the Vice-President, Miss M. Holland, and 
about 75 members and friends were present. Miss Dilger 
was elected to membership, and Messrs. Archer and Mul- 
holland were elected to country membership. Mr. A. 
Nipius, a former resident of Java, showed a series of films, 
“A Trip to the Lime Terraces in Sumatra,” “Tea Fac- 
tory,” “The Historic Monuments of Buruldur in Java,” 
and a film illustrating life in Java, under Dutch govern- 
ment. Mr. J. E. \oung tabled two flowers of different 
colours from one and the same plant of Hibiscus. 
