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congratulations of the Society on their appointment as Fellows, 

 and of assuring them of a genuine and encouraging interest in 

 their projected work. 



At the Meeting in May, the Society was asked to co-operate 

 with the Fauna and Flora Protection Committee of South Aus- 

 tralia, and the Royal Society of South Australia, in an effort to 

 have a portion of Kangaroo Island, comprising an area of 300 

 square miles, to be known as Flinders Chase, permanently 

 reserved, and vested in trustees. The Meeting cordially responded 

 to the invitation, and appointed Dr. R. Pulleine, of Adelaide, to 

 represent the Society on a deputation to the Treasurer and Com- 

 missioner of Crown Lands, which had been arranged. The 

 deputation, which comprised representatives of twenty-seven 

 Australian Societies and twelve Corporations and District Coun- 

 cils in the State, and was received by the Hon. C. Vaughan, on 

 June 13th, met with very courteous and sympathetic treatment 

 from the Minister, who promised to make personal inspection of 

 the area for which reservation was asked; and also that he would 

 make a a recommendation on the subject, to the Cabinet. Dr. 

 Pulleine kindly sent us full press reports of the interview, 

 which were brought under the notice of Members; but a per- 

 manent record of this, and other eiforts to secure National Parks 

 in South Australia, for the protection of the fauna and flora, will 

 be found in a paper by Mr. S. Dixon in the last volume of the 

 Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Aus- 

 tralia(xxxv., 1911, p. 248). 



The death of the veteran English botanist, Sir Joseph 

 Dalton Hooker, on 10th December, 1911, in the ninety-fifth 

 year of his age, is an event which cannot be passed over in 

 silence on the present occasion. I do not propose to speak at 

 length of Sir Joseph's varied and extensive travels, of his long 

 official connection with Kew Gardens in association with, or 

 iv succession to, his distinguished father ; of his pre-eminence 

 among British botanists, of his many and important contribu- 

 tions to botanical science, or of the details of his prolonged 

 and memorable career, so rich in experience and in service, 

 and crowned with honours. But I should like to remind you 



