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Protection of our Native Fauna and Plora.—aA separate report 
from this Committee is presented, in which is recorded the grati 
fying result of long-continued efforts to secure Government Farm 
as a National Park, vested in Trustees. Several other matters of 
general interest are dealt with in this report. 
Corresponding Members.—Y our Committee regret that the hope 
expressed in their last annual report as to the increased number 
of specimens expected from our corresponding members has not 
been realised. Although the sending of objects of natural 
History is only one amongst many directions in which the corres- 
ponding members are supposed to assist us, such contributions add 
largely to the interest of our evening meetings, and are eventually 
placed at the disposal of the Public Museum. Your Committee 
would urge these distant members not to abate the practical 
interest which many of them have in the past kindly shown in 
our work. In their last report the Committee referred to the 
pleasure derived from the receipt of a paper written by a corres- 
ponding member (Mr. J. G. McDougall), and they, therefore, 
learned with much regret of the recent decease of that gentleman, 
whose interest in natural history was shown in many ways. 
Proposed Amalgamation with the Microscopical Sectron.— 
Believing that there is in this city too great a multiplication of 
Scientific Societies, your Committee have proposed an amalgama- 
tion with the Microscopical Section ; feeling that such a union 
would be to the advantage of both Sections, and lead to the 
economy of time, labor, andexpense. A Sub-Committee has been 
appointed to consider the feasibility of the project. 
Membership.—During the year five persons were elected mem- 
bers of the Section, and eleven names have been struck off the 
list. The number now on the roll (exclusive of corresponding 
members), is 97. 
J. G. O. Tepper, Chairman. 
W. H. Seiway, Jun., Hon. Secretary. 
Adelaide, 20th September, 1892. 
FOURTH ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT OF THE 
NATIVE FAUNA AND FLORA PROTECTION 
COMMITTEE. 
In presenting their fourth annual report, the Committee have 
pleasure in directing attention to certain substantial results 
attained during the year. 
National Parks.—After a long-continued struggle, Government 
Farm has at last been vested in Commissioners in perpetuity as a 
National Park. The board includes seven official and five 
