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MICROSCOPICAL SECTION 



OF THE 



l^oijal Satiety of Soutb Australia (|iTC0rp0rateb), 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1912-13. 



Officers. — Chairman, Mr. W. B. Poole; Y ice-Chairman, 

 IMr. W. Fuller; Committee, Messrs. B. S. Roach, D. Gordon, 

 ^nd W. H. Baker; Auditors, Messrs. A. G. Randall and H. 

 Whitbread ; Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. J. Bradley. 



Your Committee has to report that the tenth session now 

 concluded has been one of progress, as throughout a good 

 attendance of the members has been sustained, and the work 

 during the various meetings has been of great interest. A 

 feature of this session has been the incorporation of the study 

 of the aquaria with that of microscopy, in accordance with the 

 recommendation of a Committee comprising Messrs. Fuller, 

 Edquist, Bradley, Beykirch, and Geislar, who were appointed 

 as an Aquarium Committee. 



The following meetings have been held during the year : — 



October 22, 1912. — Annual General Meeting. Election of 

 officers. Slides of interest were exhibited by Mr. E.J. Bradley. 

 Mr. Lea exhibited parasite on tongues of blowfly and wasp from 

 Tasmania. 



November 26. — Mr. Poole exhibited parasite of wasp. Mr. 

 Lea exhibited various species of weevils. Mr. E. J. Bradley 

 gave an account of the aquaria in the Eastern States, and also 

 a description of the study of aquaria as practised in Europe. 

 Aquarium Committee appointed. 



March 25, 1913. — Report of Aquarium Committee 

 received. Mr. Lea exhibited insect-catching grass from Cairns, 

 Queensland. Mr. Poole exhibited the fresh-water hydroid, 

 Corclylo'phera lacrustis, from Hindmarsh River. Mr. D. F. 

 Laurie exhibited microphotographs of ectoparasites of poultry 

 and spirochaete of poultry, fever supervening the attacks of 

 Argus 23ersicus. Mr. Bradley gave a description of the life 

 habits and embryology of the paradise fish. Poly acanthus 

 viridus auratus. Mr. Geislar exhibited living specimens of the 

 fish. 



April 22. — Mr. Beykirch exhibited the climbing perch of 

 the East Indies (Anahas scandens). Mr. Bradley exhibited 

 the fan-horned beetle from Renmark ( Rhipidocera femoralis). 

 Mr. Roach exhibited mounted slides of medusa and other 



