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APPENDICES. 

 FIELD NATURALISTS' SECTION 



OF THE 



TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 

 COMMITTEE 



For the Year Ended September 30, 1907. 



Evening Meetings. 



The monthly meetings of the Section, held during the 

 winter months, have been well attended, and the exhibits 

 numerous and instructive. 



On October 16, 1906, Dr. Ramsay Smith gave an in- 

 teresting lecture in the Prince of Wales Lecture Theatre 

 (kindly lent by the University for the occasion) on his tour 

 through Northern Australia and the East. The lecture dealt 

 specially with the Australian aboriginals in their ethnology 

 and customs, and was illustrat-ed by a large number of ex- 

 cellent lantern slides. 



November 20. Dr. R. S. Rogers, M.A., delivered the 

 Chairman's Address, which had been unavoidably postponed. 

 His subject was the work of Robert Brown, the Naturalist 

 on board the ''Investigator'' with Flinders. The lecturer 

 emphasized the debt which Australia owes to Brown, who 

 amidst great difficulties collected and named a very great 

 number of Australian plants. 



April 16, 1907. Dr. PuUeine gave a lecture on "The 

 Classification of Australian Birds," illustrated by a great 

 number of specimens. 



May 21. Papers were read supplying observations made 

 during the Easter excursion to Kangaroo Island, as follows : — 

 Dr. R. S. Rogers, on ichthiology; Mr. J. W. Mellor, ornith- 

 ology ; Mr. Griffiths, entomology ; and Mr. AV. H. Selway, on 

 botany. 



June 18. Mr. D. Mawson, B.E., B.Sc, gave an interesting 

 account of his journey to Mount Kosciusko, "the roof of Aus- 

 tralia." 



July 16. Dr. H. Pulleine, on the "Classification of 



