May, 1946 The Queensland Naturalist 
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limited means of travel, Sandgate remains a great 
stand-by to the Club, and we must be ever on the alert 
to watch that no mercenary trades people or others ever 
interfere witli Sandgate lagoons and thus drive away the 
Bird Life which is so great an attraction there. 
This report would certainly not be complete if I 
missed reporting our major outing of the year, the Easter 
Camp at Camp Mountain where at the kind invitation of 
Dr. Marks and family we Avere privileged to gather 
together for four days in sylvan surroundings, with 
excellent hosts and pleasant company and to remember 
how fortunate Ave Avere and are in these awful days of 
storm and stress, to be able to get back to Nature for a 
space of even a few days. 
May Ave then join Avitk Robert Louis Stevenson in his 
thanks to the Giver of every good thing. For summer 
sun and Avinter rain and the joy of sea and sky and of 
forest and of plain, for moon and stars, for light and 
shade, for the beauty splendour of earth and cloud. For 
the everchanging colour of flOAvers, fruit and trees, and 
above all for the good fellowship amongst us. May we 
ever remember that all these are Thy gifts to us and be 
thankful. Amen. 
GEO. T. BARKER, 
Hon. Camp Secretary. 
“LET’S TO THE FOREST” 
By Miss H. Clarke 
(Presidential address delivered before the Queensland 
Naturalists’ Club, 19th February, 1945) 
As you kuoAV, it is the custom of the Club to inflict 
on the Past President the task of giving the first lecture 
of the year. Therefore Avhile you have the satisfaction of 
making the Past President pay the penalty for holding 
office, you must realise that Avhat you sow in Presidents, 
you reap in lectures. 
It is very encouraging for the future of our Club to 
find that the increase in Membership this year is mostly 
in young people, and 1 hope their enthusiasm for and 
interest in Natural History and the Club Avill groAv as the 
years pass by. For the benefit of these neAv young mem- 
bers, though our movements at present are restricted by 
