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MICROSCOPICAL SECTION 



OF THE 



ISuogal Swrufg of Sautij Australia (Jnarrporaitfcr) 



ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1909-10. 



Officers. — Chairman, Mr. W. Fuller; Vice-Chairman, 

 Mr. W. B. Poole; Bon. Secretary, Mr. H. W. H. Hale; 

 Committee, Messrs. D. Gordon, B. S. Roach, and E. J. 

 Bradley; Auditors, Messrs. A. G. Rendall and H. Whit- 

 bread. 



Your Committee has to report that the seventh session 

 of this Section of the Royal Society of South Australia has 

 shown continued interest on the part of its members in 

 general microscopy. The attendance at the meetings has im- 

 proved, averaging seventeen, and a considerable increase in 

 the membership has been made. 



During the year papers and work of much interest have 

 been contributed by members, excursions for the purpose of 

 collecting natural history objects of interest have been made. 

 An event of the year was an address delivered by Prof. T. 

 Brailsford Robertson, D.Sc, Ph.D., etc., of the University 

 of California, which was rendered additionally interesting 

 by the fact that Prof. Robertson had in his younger days 

 received much stimulus in the direction of his biological 

 studies from one of the founders of this Section, the late 

 Mr. Smeaton. 



Synopsis of Meetings held. 



September 28, 1909. — Annual General Meeting. Paper 

 by Mr. C. Quinn upon "The Potato Blight, Phytophora 

 infestans," illustrated by specimens, mounts, and drawings; 

 exhibition of Photo Micrographs by means of the Zeiss appar- 

 atus, by Mr. W. B. Poole ; and an exhibition of instruments. 



October 22. —Excursion to Happy Valley. 



