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Poole; Members of Council, Lieut. -Col. R. S. Rogers, M.A., 

 M.D., and Professor T. B. Robertson; Hon. Auditors, W. L. 

 Ware, J. P., and H. Whitbread; Rejjresentative Governor on 

 Board of Public Library, etc.. Professor Walter Howchin^ 

 F.G.S. 



Papers. — "Further Notes on Australian Polyplacophora, 

 with Additions and Corrections of the 1918 Distribution List," 

 by Edwin Ashby, F.L.S., M.B.O.U; "Additions to the 

 Fauna of South Australia, No. 18," by J. M. Black; "The 

 External Characters of Pouch Embryos of Marsupials,'' by 

 Professor F. Wood Jones, D.Sc, F.Z.S. ; "Notes on the 

 Formation of Coorongite on Alfred Flat, South Australia,"" 

 by A. C. Broughton [vide Miscellanea]. 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1919-20. 



During the year our Patron (His Excellency Sir Henry 

 Lionel Galway), having completed his term of office as 

 Governor of the State, was succeeded by Sir Archibald 

 Weigall, who consented to our request that he would accept 

 the position of Patron. 



Papers presented by former contributors to our Trans- 

 actions include one on some of the South Australian 

 Aboriginal Languages by Mr. A. M. Black, who also 

 continues his series on South Australian Flora; notes on 

 geological subjects by Professor Howchin; on Entomology by 

 Mr. Oswald B. Lower, Dr. A. J. Turner, Mr. H. J. Carter^ 

 and Mr. A. M. Lea; on Chitons by Mr. E. Ashby; and on 

 Orchids by Dr. Rogers. Authors whose names will appear 

 for the first time in our next volume, are : — Professor Wilton,, 

 who deals with Mathematics; Professor Robertson with 

 Physiology; Professor Wood Jones with Zoology; Mr. W. R. 

 Browne with Geology; and Mr. H. H. FinLayson with 

 Chemistry. 



The in-flow of books into our library, owing to the 

 improved transit facilities since the cessation of the war, has 

 rendered it necessary for us to approach the Board of 

 Governors with a request for additional shelving, which the 

 Board has promised to lay before the Government. 



The indexing of our own publications from the year 1901 

 to the present date is now in hand. This is a laborious and 

 expensive work, but is absolutely necessary if the information 

 gathered during these years is to be made easily available for 



