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The "South Aistrallan Naturalist." — The August 

 number of this pubUcation conchides the first vohimc of our 

 coutemporary, and we wish it a long Ufe. In a sliort article 

 by Mr. E. H. Ising on " Orchids Growing from Seeds," it is 

 pointed out that our native orchids must sometimes grow from 

 seeds instead of by the increase of llie tul)ers, as is usualh' 

 stated. He gives as an instance the railway embankments 

 between Eden and Blackwood, in the Mount Lofty foothills, 

 where two or three species of Diuris are fairly plentiful. It is 

 pointed out that these embankments were made some thirty 

 or forty years ago, and it is hardly likely that the tubers wxtc 

 moved with the soil, but rather that they are the result of seed 

 distribution. The exhibition of wild-flowers by the members 

 of the .\delaide society will be held on 8th and i)th October, 

 and help from \'ictorian residents will be greatly appreciated. 



Flinders Ch.\se, Kangaroo Island, S.A. — The full story 

 of the efforts, extending over eighteen years, made by South 

 Australian nature-lovers to secure a reasonabl(> area on 

 Kangaroo Island as a fauna and flora reserve is told by Mr. 

 Samuel Dixon, who was for twenty-three years chairman of 

 the Fauna and Flora Protection Committee of the Field 

 Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of South Australia, 

 in an illustrated booklet recently published in Adelaide. The 

 author points out that, had tlu; representations made to the 

 Government been listened to and acted on at the outset, the 

 soft-wo(Kl production (pines) of the island would now amount 

 to thousands of pounds' worth annually, while skins of native 

 animals to the value of at least £25,000 had been lost to 

 commerce. In acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the 

 pubhcation. His Excellency the Governor-General wrote con- 

 gralulating the author on the success of the effort in connection 

 with the formation of tht; Kangaroo Island reserve, and said 

 that if the Field Naturalists' Societies, I*'orest Leagues, Royal 

 and other kindred societies were to affiliate more closely within 

 each State, and such affiliations linked up with similar om-s in 

 other States, forestry might be greatly helped. It is to be 

 hoped that the Board appointed to administer the 1,000 acres 

 set aside will not be hampered by want of funds, and that 

 Flinders Chase will in due time become a holiday and health 

 resort where, as at Wilson's Promontory National Park, 

 visitors can get into close touch with representatives of 

 Australia's unique fauna and flora. 



