THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
doubtless collected by a waterspout from some shallow in- 
-land lagoon or waterhole, and carried in the clouds to 
interest to recall the fact that at the end of 1913 a shower 
of small fish, identified as Craterocephalus fluviatilis, com- 
-Quirindi.’’ 
_. Heiaur ANp Growrn or Trers.—In Vol. 46, 1914, of 
Trans. New Zealand Inst., there is a most able paper by 
ee Mr, T. F. Cheeseman on ‘‘The Age and Growth of {he 
> Kauri,’’ in which a very clear description is given of the 
necessary precautions to be taken in making observations 
‘on the age of trees and their rate of growth. The paper 
also contains remarks on great trees of various parts of 
the world, including Australia. 
ea) - The Victorian Naturalist, Vol. 35, p. 46, contains an 
ner with the somewhat conflicting evidence. of different 
observers on this subject. We commend these papers to 
_ the notice of our readers. —HEDITOR. 
- ing paragraph on the behaviour of bees attracted by the 
sugar damaged during the great cyclone some months ago :-— 
“(At the different mills where the sugar sheds were de- 
- molished, and the sugar melted by the rain, thousands of 
bees are to be seen feeding on the juice formed by the 
melted sugar or taking it from the darnaged bags. They 
+ are found in swarms about the damaged sugar, busily col- 
 lecting their loads, and moving back and forward between 
the hives and the sheds. At one of the mills a swarm has 
made its home in a super-heater (a kind of closed iron 
ais of the super-heater, and the bees can be seen entering and 
- ‘Jeaving in a very busy manner throughout the day. Some 
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- anyone decide to do so later on. 
A says:—‘The roof being off the store at Settlement, Hull 
River, bags of sugar were soon converted into syrup, which 
, 
Broke, where the phenomenal shower fell. It will be of 
- __ extremely interesting paper by Mr. A. D. Hardy, on ““The | 
all Trees of Australia,’’ dealing in a comprehensive man-. 
Nore on Bees.—The Mackay Mercury has an interest- 
boiler) that is lying disused near the sugar shed. A hole | 
about half an inch in diameter gives access to the inside 
On the same subject, the North Queensland Register - 
of shrimps which fell with the rain near Singleton were — 
- . monly known as_hardyheads, fell in a rainstorm at 
- difficulty will be experienced in robbing the hive should — 
