THE 
Australtan Patura 
Wo. APRIL, 1909. 
NOTE.—Members having any matter of interest suitable for publication 
in these pages are requested to communicate with the Hdttor. 
Orpinaryv Merrinc.—The Ordinary Monthly Meeting was 
held at 82 Pitt-street on Thursday evening, February 2, 1909,. 
the President, Mr. D. G. Stead, in the chair. i 
Evections.—Mr. [tdwin Cheel was elected an ordinary,. 
and Masters Clark and Levy, junior, members of the Club. 
LecrurE.—Mr. W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S., gave an inter- 
esting lecture, ‘‘Natural History Notes on My Recent World 
Mounts : 
SPECIAL GENERAL MertTING.—Prior to the March Ordinary 
Meeting, a Special General Meeting was held to consider 
certain alterations and amendments to the Rules. 
Orpinary Meetinc.—Uhe Ordinary Monthly Meeting was 
held on Thursday evening, March 4, 1900, the President, Mr. 
D. G. Stead, in the chair. j 
ELECTION.—Mr. Oschaatz was elected an ordinary member 
of the Club. ; 
Bustness.—‘‘An Evening with the Nature Poets.’? Mr. 
Thackeray opened with a paper on “‘Tom Hood as a Nature 
Poet,’ and Messrs. Stead, Froggatt, Rainbow, and Harrison 
also contributed. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES ON MY RECENT 
WORLD-TOUR. 
(By Walter W. Froggatt, F.L.S.) 
My first point of call was Honolulu; in ,the Hawaiian 
Islands both the fauna and flora have almost vanished. It 
is said that in the early days when the English and American: 
ships first visited them, they were more or less clothed with 
forests, but these have long since vanished, and the present 
flora in the ‘‘Garden of the Pacific’? consists of a luxuriant 
growth of introduced plants; on the waste lands, lantana,. 
guava, several prickly acacias, and the larger algeroba trees, 
while in the parks and gardens the Royal Palm with its 
beautiful white stem takes the place of honour; yet every- 
thing seems to thrive, from our blue gums and she-oaks to 
the mango. The animals found here are wild deer, origin- 
ally sent to the King of Hawaii by the Mikado of Japan, 
then came the rat, and the mongoose introduced to kill the rats. 
