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on a tugasaste. Capt. S. A. White exhibited three birds 

 taken during his recent transcontinental trip : — Bamardius 

 macgillivrayi (C'loncurry parrot) and Aprosmiectus cry- 

 thopturus (Red-winged parrot), from North-west Queens- 

 land, and Bamardius zonarius myrtae (Mrs. Morgan's parrot), 

 from the Northern Territory. Mr. A. M. Lea showed larvae 

 of cockchafers from Nantawarra, where they were stated to be 

 destroying from 50 to 75 per cent, of the crop on one farm 

 by eating the roots. 



Annual Meeting, October 19, 1922. 



The President (R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D.) in the chair. 



The Annual Report and Financial Statement were 

 read and adopted. 



The Field Naturalists' Annual Report was read and 

 adopted . 



President's Address. — The retiring President delivered 

 an address, the subject of w^iich was ''A History of the Royal 

 Society of South Australia, particularly in its relation to 

 other Institutions in the State." 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



By R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D. 



A History of the Society, particularly in its Relation 



to Other Institutions in the State. 



An annual Presidential address has by no means been an 

 established rule in this Society, and during the last forty-six 

 years there have been no less than twenty-nine occasions on 

 which it was omitted. 



While it would seem unnecessary that your President 

 should address you as a matter of duty every year, there would 

 appear to be good reasons why the observance should not be 

 allowed to fall wholly into abeyance. It is obviously a wise 

 thing to make a halt in our proceedings now and then, in 

 order that a retrospect may be made. Facts and events are 

 but too easily forgotten, and occasional opportunity should 

 be afforded to record them in their historical sequence. 



As a Society we are no longer young ; we have already 

 reached our three score and ten, and are hastening towards 

 that century which many of you will doubtless celebrate. For 

 this reason I desire to direct your attention to some of the more 

 salient points in our history, particularly in its relation to 

 other institutions in the State. 



1. Preliminary. 

 It is hardly necessary to remind you that we are the 

 immediate offspring of the Adelaide Philosophical Society, 



