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afield to find material. The park lands of our garden city offer 

 fine scope for raany a series of recorded observations. "We have 

 no Nature calendar for our own district. The weekly record of 

 plants and trees in flower in our park lands would become of 

 great help to future naturalists. What value would we attach 

 to a record of the introduction of the various Aveeds nov\^ estab- 

 lished in our parks? Carefully recorded observation of that 

 kind respecting the plants, birds, or insects of our immediate 

 environment could be compiled by a much larger proportion of 

 our members. We now have an organ through w^hich these 

 records may secure publication. It is to be hoped that many of 

 our members will avail themselves of the opportunity to 

 contribute. 



Exchanges. — We are in receipt of the following :— (1) ''The 

 Victorian Naturalist" for October, containing an account of 

 aboriginal coast camps on the coast of Eastern Victoria. (2) 

 "The Queensland Naturalist" for October. An article on 

 ''Land Shells of the Queensland National Park" should interest 

 some members. (3) "The S.A. Ornithologist'" for October. 



THE NATIVE FAUNA AND FLOEA COMMITTEE OF THE 



FIELD NATURALISTS' SECTION OF THE ROYAL 



SOCIETY OF S.A. 



Report for the Year ending 20tli September, 1921. 



Four meetings have been held during the year. 



Following upon much correspondence and deputations to 

 the Minister of Industry in reference to the protection of trees 

 along roadsides, it is satisfactory to report that it is the inten- 

 tion of the Government to introduce a Bill before Parliament 

 during the present session. 



Matters in connection with Flinders Chase are not at all 

 satisfactory. The Government has so far failed to give financial 

 support to the Board empowered to carry on the Reserve ; with- 

 out monetary assistance it is impossible to carry out the pro- 

 gramme of improvements, tree planting, and stocking with 

 animals that has been drav.-n up in readiness to proceed when 

 funds are available. 



Our Chairman (Captain S. A. White) has attended m^eetings 

 of the Flinders Chase Board, ..interviewed Ministers, and visited 

 Kangaroo Island in his endeavour to get the Government to 

 finance the Board, and has been acting chairman since Hon. 

 John Lewis' resignation. 



