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Smith, F.C.S. ; "New Australian Lepidoptera of the Family 

 Tortricidae," by A. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. ; 

 "Descriptions of New Australian Micro-Lepidoptera/' by 

 Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S. , F.Z.S. 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1915-16. 



The annual volume of Transactions will show that the 

 work of the Society has been well sustained. It will include 

 further contributions on Geology by Mr. Walter Howchin, 

 on Entomology by Mr. A. M. Lea, Mr. O. B. Lower, and 

 Mr. A. P. Dodd, on Botany by Mr. J. M. Black, and on 

 Ichthyology by Mr. E. R. Waite, as well as information 

 obtained from experts beyond the State on specimens for- 

 warded to them for determination and description from the 

 South Australian Museum. Two valuable papers on Austra- 

 lian native tribes have been brought before the Society — viz., 

 "The Wowarra Tribe of North-western Australia, with 

 Grammar and Vocabulary," by Mr. J. B. B. Love, and 

 "Vocabularies of Three South Australian Native Languages, " 

 by Mr. J. M. Black; but owing to the pressure upon both 

 space and funds their publication will be reluctantly post- 

 poned to a future volume. 



The evening meetings have been enlivened by the exhibi- 

 tion of many objects of scientific interest. 



The efforts of the Society to secure the establishment of 

 a Reserve for Native Fauna and Flora on Kangaroo Island 

 have been continued, but the promised Act of Parliament 

 for this purpose has not yet been introduced. The Society 

 has also interested itself in the matter of reorganizing the 

 control of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, with a view to 

 increasing its scientific and economic value. This question is 

 still under discussion by the Government and the Board of 

 Governors of the Garden. 



Our Honorary Fellow, Professor W. H. Bragg, has 

 received further recognition by the award to him, in conjunc- 

 tion with his son, of the Nobel Prize for their researches in 

 connection with radio-activity, and our Fellow, Sir Douglas 

 Mawson, has been awarded the Helen Culver Medal of the 



