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APPENDICES. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' SECTION 



OF THE 



^ogal §ociet]D of §outh Australia. 



EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



COMMITTEE, 



For the Year ending 30th Sefi'ember, 1901. 



Evening Meetings. — Eight evening meetings have been held, 

 at which the following j)apers, &c , have been read by the under- 

 mentioned authors : — 



1900. 

 Oct. 16 — "Colour in the Lower Animals/" J. Aitken. "Notes 



on the Method of Fertilization of various Flowers/' 



T. D. Smeaton. 

 Nov. 20 — " Practical Demonstration in Rock Sectioning," E.J. 



Bradley. 

 1901. 

 April 16 — " Notes on a Northern Trip," S. Smeaton, B.A. 

 May 21 — " Observations on the Boys' Field Club Easter Excur- 

 sion at Norman ville," R. J. Clucas. 

 June 18 — "Botanical Notes" (Teratology — Weather Forecasts 



by Plants — Diseases in Plants), T. D. Smeaton. 

 July 23 — " The Roots of Plants — their Arrangement, Structure, 



and Function," E. Ashby. 

 Aug. 20 — " Natural History Features of Lome (Victoria)," W. 



H. Selway. " Insects and Entomology," J. G. O. 



Tepper, F.L.S. 

 Sept. 17 — Chairman's Address (Annual Meeting), " The Flowers 



of Plants," S. Smeaton, B.A. 

 The attendance at these meetings, while not quite equal to 

 that of last session, has been well up to the average of recent 

 years. The course of papers on "Structural Botany," commenced 

 last session, has been continued this year, when the roots and the 

 flower have been dealt with. Be.sides botany, other widely 



