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Cbc Queensland naturalist. 
JOURNAL OF THE QUEENSLAND NATURALISTS’ CLUB 
AND nature-lovers’ LEAGUE. 
V’oi. V. November, 1925 No. 3. 
PROCEEDINGS. 
EVENING MEETING, 20th July 1925.— The 
president (Mr. W. B. Alexander) occui)ied the chair. 
The principal business of the evening was .a lecture 
illusti*ated by Mr. H. A. Longman on ‘'Fossil Man — Some 
Recent Discoveries a number of specimens of skulls 
and casts and also a series of lantern slides were given 
in illustration of his remai’ks. 
Some fine specimens of Pseudotaenia ajax, a beauti- 
ful buprestid beetle were tabled by the late Mrs. Ilobber. 
— ^Dr. E. 0. Marks exliibited specimens of a Net Fungus 
(Clathrus sp.) in the egg stage. 
EVENING MEETING, 17th August, 1925.— The 
president (Mr. W. B. Alexander) occupied the chair. 
The principal business of the evening was the screening 
of a number of slides prepared by Mr. R. L. Higgins, of 
Queensland Wild Flowers; the slides were explained by 
the Government Botanist (Mr. C. T. White). Mr. R. L. 
Higgins exhibited a few seeds of Macrozanonia maero- 
carpa, a native of the Malayan region, and extending to 
New Guinea. Mr. W. B. Alexander exhibited a volume 
of Dampier's “Voyage to New Holland, etc., in the year 
1699,^’ containing the earliest illustrations of Australian 
plants. Mr. G. H. Barker exhibited a flowering spray of 
Boronia pinnata from Stradbroke Island, collected by 
Mr. Thos. Welsby, who stated that the flowering season 
was early this year. The exhibit was commented on by 
Messrs. White, , Herbert, Longman, and Nixon. Mr. 
White suggested the desirability of making exact pheno- 
logical observations, and this suggestion Avas supported 
by the President (Mr. W. B. Alexander) who thought 
that a list of common species, checked over several 
seasons, Avould be useful to all. 
