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addition to the foregoing means the President (Dr. Verco) 
has generously undertaken to bear the cost of all plates illus- 
trating papers on the natural history of South Australia in 
the forthcoming volume. 
The Council has the pleasure of reporting that the Mala- 
cological, Microscopical, and Field Naturalists’ Sections are 
doing a useful work in their respective departments, the last- 
named having attained its twenty-first anniversary. 
