Sept., 1924 
86 The Queensland Naturalist. 
meii.s and black-board diagrams. Mr. R. IHidge reported 
on eollfiction.s of beetles made in the Enosrgera and 
Samford districts re.spectively. 
EVENING MEETING, 21st JULY, 1924.— The Vice- 
President (Mr. J. C. Smith) occupied the chair, and 
there Avas a good attendance of member.s. Mr. 'W. B. 
Alexander gave a lecturette, illustrated by lantern slides, 
on “The Earliest Descriptions of Au.stralian Animals.” 
Mr. Franzen exhibited a case of insects of the genus 
Stigmodera. Photographs of Emu.s, shoAving the male 
bird .sitting on the eggs, Avere shoAvn by Mr. J. (b Smith. 
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FLORA OF MORETON ISLAND. 
(Report on the Easter Encampment (19 24) of the Queensland 
Naturalists’ Club at CoAvan CoAvan.) 
By C. T. White, P.L.S. 
The first naturalist to botanise on Morcton Island 
Ava.s J. MacGillivray, who in 1847, during the voyage of 
the “Rattlesnake,” spent a couple of days on the island; 
he devotes about a page in his “Narrative of the Voyage 
of II.M.S. Beagle” to its flora. 
The island was visited nearly ten years laiter by 
Ferdinand Mueller (afterAvards Baron Sir Ferdinand von 
Mueller) during his eighteen months sojourn in Queens- 
land and the Northern Territory Avith Gregory’s Expedi- 
tion of 1855-6, to Av’hich he aa’us attached as bolanist. 
In September. 1908, members of thi.s club, includirg 
the present Avritcr. sjAent a feiv days on the Isl.and, having 
Buhver, not far from our last camping place, CoAAmn 
CoAvan, as headquarters; a genc-ral aeeonnl of the jJants 
collected on that occasion Avdl be found in the pages of 
the “Queensland Naturalist,” \ol. 1, pp. 70-(3, and that 
account taken in conjunction Avith the present gives a 
fair idea of the flora of the north-Avestern ))ortion of the 
island. Botanising on the eastern coast and the southern 
end Avould probably add a number of names to those here 
listed. 
Moreton Island is approximately 20 miles long and 
not more than 5 miles Avidc at the AA'idest part. Though 
the rainfall is heavy (63 inches at Cape Moreton), the 
island for the most part consists of high sand hills (the 
highest 910 feet), AA’ith a dry porous soil deficient in 
plant food, Avith the consequence that the vegetation is 
