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APPENDICES. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' SECTION 



OF TflE 



$02 al Sodeig of Snutjr Australia (Jnrorporaieb). 



THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



COMMITTEE. 



For the Year Ended September 15, 1914. 



Your Committee has much pleasure in reporting that 

 another successful year has been experienced by this Section 

 of the Royal Society. The evening meetings and excursions 

 have been well attended, and active interest continues to be 

 shown by members in all branches of our work. 



During the year a splendid series of lectures was delivered 

 at our evening meetings, and the Committee wishes to record 

 its appreciation to those gentlemen who lectured before the 

 Society, as well as to the Leaders of the excursions, all of 

 which have contributed very materially to the successful 

 working of the Section. 



The issuing of the first annual programme last year was 

 partly experimental, and its success has encouraged your 

 Committee to issue it again this year, and thus establish it as 

 a permanent factor in our affairs. 



It is very gratifying to note that the Native Fauna and 

 Flora Protection Committee of this Section and their energetic 

 Chairman (Mr. Edwin Ashby) are continuing to strongly 

 agitate for the further protection of our native fauna on 

 Kangaroo Island. We hope that the Committee will meet 

 with every success. 



The official work accomplished during the year has been 

 considerable, and the officers of the Section have in every 

 way endeavoured to further the interests of the members. 



The Chairman of the Section (Mr. E. H. Lock, F.R.H.S.) 

 retires by effluxion of time, and again the Committee desires 

 to record its appreciation of the valuable work he has accom- 

 plished for the Society. Other official changes are those of 



