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November 7-9, 1903 (three days)—Maclaren Vale, 
Square Waterhole, Clarendon, etc. 
December 12, 1903—National Park. 
January 23, 1904—Dredging, Port River. 
April 23, 1904--“Шав Conchas," Largs Bay, Mrs. H. R. 
Robertson’s collection of shells. 
May 21, 1904— Ston yfell. 
June 18, 1904—Blackwood. 
July 16, 1904— Black Hill. 
August 20, 1904—Brownhill Creek (northern branch). 
September 1, 1904 (whole day)—Mount George, near 
Bridgewater. 
September 17, 1904—Anstey’s Hill, to Teatree Gully. 
Of these excursions ten have been half-day outings, one a 
whole-day, and one a three-days' trip. The three days’ ex- 
cursion (November, 1903) was taken south from Adelaide, 
Maclaren Vale being the headquarters. This afforded an op- 
portunity of visiting the Square Waterhole district, one of 
our best localities for native flowers. There we collected 
many plants not to be found nearer the city. Through the 
kindness of local friends this lengthy excursion was rendered 
particularly pleasurable in a social sense, while the route 
traversed embraced some of our finest hills scenery. 
The whole-day trip to Mount George, on September 1, was 
a pleasant outing, but not very successful botanically, per- 
haps being too early in the season. This place had not been 
visited by the Section since January, 1884. It is somewhat 
difficult at this stage of the Section's existence to find suit- 
able new localities for Saturday afternoon excursions, but 
during the year two fresh places have been visited, viz., Gren- 
ville Glen, near Crafers (when the party were the guests of 
Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Ireland), and Brownhill Creek (north- 
ern branch). By way of experiment the hills at Blackwood 
were visited earlier (June 18) than hitherto, and this dis- 
trict again gave evidence of its wealth of native flora, especi- 
ally in orchids. In further proof of this may be mentioned 
the fact that at an excursion of the Boys' Field Club to this 
locality later in the season (September 10) no fewer than 
twenty species of orchids were collected. At Happy Valley, 
on October 3, 1903, ten species of orchids were gathered. 
As a change from botanical investigations, one dredging 
trip has been held, and, through the kindness of Mrs. H. R. 
Robertson, an excursion to see her fine conchological collec- 
tion at “Las Conchas," Largs Bay," was arranged. Further 
variety was added by a visit to the Olive Company's planta- 
tions at Stonyfell, and the Stonyfell Wine Company's cel- 
lars, when the processes of oil and wine manufacture were 
