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Section D. 



1. Committee for the Biological and Hydrographical Study of the N en- 

 Zealand Coast. — It was decided to continue the Committee for the 

 Biological and Hydrographical >Study of the New Zealand Coast, and 

 to add the names of Mr. G. E. Archey and Mr. W. R. B. Oliver to 

 the Committee ; Professor Charles Chiltox, Scretary. 



2. Conservation of Water Committee. — The Conservation of Water 

 Committee (see Vol. XIV., p. 337), of which the late Colonel W. V. 

 Legge was Secretary, was discharged. The Association joins with 

 Tasmania in deploring the loss, by death, of our colleague, who was 

 one of our most zealous members. 



3. Ecology Committee. — (See Vol. XIV.. p. 342.) It was decided to 

 continue the Ecology Committee, with the addition of Mr. A. A. 

 Hamilton as a member ; Dr. C. S. Sutton, Secretary. 



It was further resolved that a Committee be appointed to collect 

 data and initiate a reasonably-detailed ecological map of Australia 

 marking out the distribution of the salt-bush and other types of 

 flora. 



It was decided that the following resolution be sent to the Premier 

 of South Australia : — 



This Association, meeting .in Melbourne in January, 1921, 

 representative of Australasian scientific opinion, being seized 

 with the great national and scientific importance of the pre- 

 servation of native fauna and flora, heartily congratulates the 

 Government on the recently-passed legislation constituting 

 FUnder's Chase, on Kangaroo Island, a national reserve for fauna 

 and flora, and urges that immediate steps be taken to give full 

 effect to that legislation. 



The Government is further urged to give full consideration to 

 the quite unique importance which attaches to the constitution 

 of the whole of Kangaroo Island as a national fauna and flora 

 reserve, as well as to the protection of the land, fresh water and 

 sub-aquatic fauna and flora of all the islands in South Australian 

 waters, other than Kangaroo Island, and such as are actively 

 used for farming pursuits. 



It was further resolved, on the motion of Professor Sir Baldwin 

 Spencer, K.C.M.G., F.R.S.— 



1. That in order to carry out immediately a co-ordinated Investi- 

 gation into the Land and Fresh Water Fauna and the 

 Flora of Australia and Tasmania, the Societies and Institu- 

 tions in the various States, as named below, be requested 



