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balance the loss that is always to be expected. The number 

 now on the roll is 90. 



Financial. — The receipts from subscriptions (£11) have 

 considerably exceeded the disbursements (£8/9). Only £10" 

 has been received in the way of grant from the Royal 

 Society. 



Edwin Ashby, Chairman. 

 W. H. Selwav, Hon. Sec. 

 Adelaide, Sept. 17, 1900. 



TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIVE 

 FAUNA AND FLORA PROTECTION COMMITTEE 

 OF THE FIELD NATURALISTS' SEClxON OF THE 

 ROYAl^ SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA TO BE 

 PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, 18tht 

 SEPTEMBER, 1900. 



The Committee have met at intervals in the past year. 



Regarding the Forest Reserves, the Committee received, in 

 October last, a letter from the Commissioner of Crown Lands 

 informing them "that all land recommended by the Con- 

 servator of Forests to be retained for forest culture is so 

 retained, and wherever suitable land is available it will be 

 set apart for the purpose." Information was however, re- 

 cently received from Wirrabara that a perpetual lease of 

 277 acres in the forest had been granted to one man, and' 

 at the request of the Secretary, Mr. John Darling, M.P., 

 asked in Parliament some questions of the commissioner on 

 the subject, receiving the reply that all Forest Reserves were 

 preserved that were worth preserving. 



The Birds' Protection Bill referred to in our last report, 

 having lapsed, has been this year re-introduced by Mr. Play- 

 ford, but in a different form. 



The Committee were disposed to join the Bird Protection 

 Society in asking that the Bill should be withdrawn, as many 

 important provisions contained in their own Bill, upon which 

 this one had been founded, were omitted from it. Two of 

 the members waited upon Mr. Playford with this end in 

 view, but, after discussing the question with him, thought it 

 would be better to allow the Bill to go on, and endeavour 

 later to get introduced some amendments to meet their nwn 

 views. So little progress has, however, been made that there 

 seems little probabilitv of the Bill being passed this session. 



Edwin Ashby, Chairman. 

 M. Symonds Clark, ^.lon. Secretary. 



Adelaide, September 18, 1900. 



