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The Queensland Naturalist. 
April, 1925 . 
efforts. While the Club is constituted by a number of 
men and women Avhose love for some aspect of Natural 
History finds expression in their association with others 
of similar or connate tastes — and in this Avay the Club 
must always remain as a natural entity — ^it is a most 
reo-rettable fact that in a city such as Brisbane there is 
practically no representation of the junior section of the 
community. There must surely be a laro'e number of 
youno- folk whom the love for birds, beetles, butterflies, 
moths, shells, sea-shore life, wild flowers, etc., enthuses, 
and for whom the Naturalists’ Club should offer special 
attractions. The monthly meetings and excursions re- 
])resent excellent opportunities for such folk, and would 
enable them to form a healthy specialised knowledge 
of the particular group of animal or plant' life or the 
particular division of Natural History in which they have 
a natural interest. The Club would welcome such to its 
ranks, for it badly needs their help and sympathy. Tt is 
sincerely hoped that these remarks may be noticed by 
any who do not know of the existence of the Naturalists’ 
Club, and are ignorant of the opportunities which are 
available to them. 
Unfortunately, the interests of the Club are largely 
kept up, at present, by members of advanced years, and 
by others of a professional status, and it is their whole- 
some desire that they should have the opportunity of 
helping and encouraging others in the study of our 
Natural Histoiy, in the hope that these younger mem- 
bers will carry on the work for which the (Tub exists. 
There is no reason why the Queensland 'Naturalists’ 
Club slioiild not include and be largely controlled by a 
band of enthusiastic naturalists whose leisure time could 
be filled in with satisfying nature studies, the variety 
of which might be well met to the advantage of them- 
selves and the community. There is little of that leisure 
available for many who, at present linked up with the 
Naturalists’ Club, are precluded by professional duties 
from indulging to the extent they would like in the 
activities of the Club. Biological study is becoming more 
seriously recognised in the business of the State, in view 
of its economic importance, but in many ways it would 
be most regrettable— even disastrous — if this side of 
nature study were to become exclusively pre-eminent. 
We hear much about the applied, practical or economic, 
and the theoretical aspects of scientific study, . but it 
