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MALACOLOGICAL SECTION 
OF THE 
Koval Society of South Australia. 
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT, 1895. 
The preliminary meeting was held on September 20th, 1894, 
when it was resolved—(1) That the name of the Section be the 
Malacological Section of the Royal Society of South Australia. 
(2) That the annual subscription from members of the Royal 
Society shall be five shillings, and from others, if living within a 
radius of ten miles of Adelaide, shall be ten shillings ; if beyond 
that distance, five shillings. (3) That meetings shall be held on 
the fourth Tuesday in each month. (4) That the Section shall 
annually elect its Chairman and Secretary ; that the whole Sec- 
tion shall at present constitute its Executive Committee. (5) 
That a report of the proceedings of the Section, and original 
papers by its members, approved by the Council of the Society, 
shall be printed in the Transactions of the Royal Society, and 
that a copy of such report and papers shall be distributed to each 
member of the Section. The Section will secure about 50 copies 
of all papers printed, as a stock for sale to future members of the 
Section and others. 
Tt was further resolved that the nomination of applicants for 
membership shall take place at an ordinary meeting, and the 
election at the next meeting. This shall be by ballot, and one 
black ball in three shall exclude the applicant. 
Two new members have been elected, Mr. M. Maughan and 
Mr. A. Gosnell. 
Twelve meetings have been held, and the same officers were at 
the last meeting elected for another year. 
The work done has consisted chietly in a critical revision of 
the Marine Gasteropods of South Australia, taking as a basis for 
discussion Mr. Adcock’s List of Species of Aquatic Mollusca, 
1893 ; the first 84 of which have been examined. The results 
