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66 The Queensland Naturalist. April, 1926 
Mr. (\ DorTihiiscli, of Warwick, sent pliotographs of 
the dried bed of the Condaniine Rivei-j showing different 
patterns in the mud-craeks, also a pitot ograph sliowing 
damage done to a Grey Gum by Itiack cockatoos, the 
cockatoos having torn away the bark to get at the larvae 
of a beetle. Mr. J. E, Yontig showetl a few lantern 
-slides; tliese included tlte jaw-bones of a tiger shark 
caught at Amity Point, long streamers of “moss’’ hang- 
ing from trees on Mount Stanley, a pine tree with very 
tAvisted trunk growing in the State Forest at tdiinchilla, 
and grass trees from Kanaipa (Stradbroke Island) with 
particularly tine tlowering jxdes. Mr. Young also 
exliibite^l the seed pod of the “Native Wistaria’’ 
(i\lilietia) . A number of aboriginal im|)lements from the 
Xortiiern Territory were exhibited by Mrs. Baird, also 
.sleeve links made iTom Kibbon Stone fi-om Mount Tsa. 
Ml*. G. W. Holland showed a sktdeton of the crncifix cat- 
fish from the West Indit's, and a j'tair of cameo-like 
otoliths (ear bones) from the head of a Moreton Bay 
Jew Fish. Mi’. D. A. Herbert showed a frnit of the 
Anstralian Ba<J)ab (Adansonia Gregorii) from Xoidh- 
west Australia ornamented by aboriginal drawings of 
native animals, also a freak wattle blossom from Palm- 
woods. Mr. J. H. Simmonds Junr. showed abnormal 
growths in the pineai>ide. Y'lr. Ijaughton showed a 
yiieture in coloured sand made by a Queensland 
aborigine, also a stone tomahawk liead and the stone 
used to grind it. The president exhibited s])ecimens of 
a grasshopper identified by Ylr. Tllidge as Acridopeza 
reticulata. A case of moths was shown by Mr. L. 
Franzen. Miss H. Geissmann exhibited photographs of 
(a) the lily lagoon at Plunkett; (b) Goose Swamp, 
Lake’s Greek, Rockhampton; (c) Neiumbium sjieciosnin 
from the Rockhamplon Botanic Gardens; (d) Melon 
Shell-Gymbium fiammeum— an egg capsule; (e) (.)rnate 
Spiny Lobster-Palinnrns faseiatus; (f) a series showing 
the life history of tlie moth Cheleifferyx collesi. 
A note on “How tlu^ Turtle Makes Her Nest/’ by 
ATiss Geissmann. avhs read by the Hon. Secretary. The 
notes were published in the ‘'Queenslander” of the 16th 
January, 1926, and were illustrated by a fine series of 
photographs. 
Air. R. Tllidge read a short paper on “Some Becent 
Avian Visitors,” and showed s])ecimens and pictures in 
illustration of his remarks. 
