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APPENDICES. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' SECTION 



OF THB 



Slogal SorutD of South ^xxstralia (Incorporateb). 



THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



COMMITTEE. 



For the Year Ended September 21, 1915. 



Your Committee reports with gratification that this 

 Section of tiie Royal Society has experienced another very 

 successful 3''ear. The monthly meetings and the field excur- 

 sions held during the period under review have been excellently 

 attended, and members have displayed the keenest interest in 

 the affairs of the Section. 



Your Committee decided to continue again this year a 

 winter series of popular evening lectures, to which the general 

 public was invited. The results have been very gratifying, 

 the total attendances being considerably over a thousand. The 

 attendances at the excursions have likewise been most satis- 

 factory, the average being 32. The year was opened with a 

 membership of 111. To this number 22 new members have 

 been added ; resignations total 9, leaving us w^ith a roll of 121. 

 The Committee desires to express its appreciation to the gentle- 

 men who lectured before the Society and to those who acted 

 as leaders of the excursions held during the year. 



Early in the year your Committee, realizing the value 

 a small lantern would be to the Section if installed in the 

 Royal Society's room, placed an application before the parent 

 society. It is pleased to state that its request was granted 

 and that the lantern has since proved very serviceable. 



The last annual meeting was held on Tuesday, September 

 15, 1914, when the following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year: — Chairman, Captain S. A. White, M.B.O.U., 

 R.A.O.U.: Vice-Chairmen, Mr. W. J. Kimber, Professor T.. 



