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The Queensland Naturalist. 
April, 1925 
traliaii Life Forms and their Significance.” *The offi- 
cers for the ensuing tAvelve months were elected, as set 
out on the cover pa^e of this issue. The Annual Report 
was read and adopted, after a few amendments. The 
lion. Treasurer (Mr. G. 11. Barker) presented the finan- 
cial statement for the year. The Hon. Librarian (Mr, G. 
H. Barker) reported that 178 parts of serial publications 
had been added to the library during the year; most be- 
ing received as exchanges. 
EVENING MEETING, 16th MARCH, 1925.— Mr. 
W. B. Alexander (President) occupied the chair, and 
there was a good attendance of members and visitors. 
The following persona were unanimously elected mem- 
bers of the club: — Dr. and Mrs, Gifford broil, Mr. R. S. 
Pennycuick, Mr G. H. Hardy, Mr. J. Mann, and Mr. J, B. 
Wadley. The principal business of the meeting was the 
screening of a nxunber of lantern slides of bird life by 
]\Ir. D. W. Gaukrodger^ from photographs all taken 
within a fifty mile radius of Alice Downs Station, 
Blackall, Central Queensland. Particularly noteworthy 
was a fine series of slides illustrating the life history of 
the emu, and another of the wedge-tailed eagle. Slides 
of a number of other birds were shown, pictures of the 
Common CroAV (raven) at the nest, and also of the Galah 
being specially attractive, these birds thougjh among 
the commonest, being particularly hard to photograph. 
Reports on the recent excursion to Kuraby were 
given by Mr. J. C. Smith (general), Dr. E. O. Marks 
(geology), Mr. W. B. Alexander (bird-life), and Mr. 
Pranzen (insects). Mr. R. L. Higgins tabled a number 
of photographs taken on the excursion. The exhibits 
staged at the meeting were of considerable interest, and 
created a good deal of discussion. The following exhibits 
wore tabled: — By Mr. J. B. Wadley, a particularly fine 
pair of dingo .skins from Murgon ; by Mr. H. A. Long- 
man, skull of dingo and of Tasmanian wolf, showing 
differences in brain cavity, also a fossil tooth of a large 
extinct marsupial wolf from cave earth at Marmor 
Quarry, donated to the Queensland Museum by Mr. S. 
EA^ans. The tooth is probably identical with Thylacinus 
spelaeus Owen, from tlie Wellington Caves; by Mr. P. 
Pranzen, a case of neuropterous insects, principally ant- 
lions; by Mrs. ITobler, two rare insects, Yorkeica mar- 
morata and Phoracanthera grallaria; by Mr. R. IHidge, 
♦Held over till next Issue. 
