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APPENDICES. 

 FIELD NATURALISTS' SECTION 



OF THE 



$0gal Sorutp of Soittlj ^Utstralia (Jncorparateti). 



TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 

 COMMITTEE 



for the Year Ended September, 1910. 



The Section has good reason to congratulate itself upon 

 the work of the past session, both in the field and in the 

 evening meetings. 



The scientific results of the session's work are difficult to 

 estimate — in fact, impossible — because the operations are 

 primarily educational rather than research. 



Collectors, however, have made valuable additions to 

 their store of knowledge as well as of exhibits. On account 

 of the limitations of field operations, members have to travel 

 abroad alone for scientific research in areas not accessible tc- 

 the general body of members. 



Meetings. 



Dealing first with the meetings, we have to record that 

 at the last annual meeting we had the pleasure of welcoming 

 Dr. Mawson from his travels to the Antarctic. In response 

 to the welcome, Dr. Mawson spoke of the pleasure of return- 

 ing to his friends, and gave some interesting anecdotes of 

 his travels, and intimated that, from a scientific point of view,, 

 the various branches of work would benefit largely by the 

 observations taken on this great journey. 



At this meeting the following officers were elected : — 

 Chairman, Mr. W. H. Selway ; Vice-Chairmen, Mr. J. M. 

 Black and Dr. R. S. Rogers; Secretary, Mr. E. H. Lock; 

 Treasurer, Mr. S. S. Stokes: Minute Secretary, Miss E. 

 Hocking; Committee, Mrs. J. F. Mellor, Mrs. R. S. Rogers, 

 Dr. R. Pulleine, Messrs. M. S. Clark, A. R. Errey, J. Will- 

 mott, J. W. Mellor, and J. G. O. Tepper : Auditors, Messrs. 

 J. S. Lloyd and W. D. Reed ; Fauna and Flora Committee, 

 Dr. R. S. Rogers, Dr. W. Ramsay Smith, Messrs. Clark, 

 Dixon, Ashby, Lock, Black, Zietz, Edquist, Mellor, and 

 Selwav. 



