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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Royal Society of South Australia 



(Incorporated) 



for the Year, November 1, 1920, to October 31, 1921. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 11, 1920. 



The President (Sir Joseph C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.) 

 in the chair. 



Election. — John Neil McGilp a Fellow. 



Treasurership. — The resignation of W. B. Poole as 

 Hon. Treasurer was accepted with regret, and expressions of 

 appreciation of his services were spoken; B. S. Roach was 

 elected to the vacant position. 



The Hon. Secretary reported that the Council had 

 handed, to the Archives Department of the Public Library, for 

 safe custody, certain old documents referring to the origin 

 and early history of the Society, which would be catalogued 

 and always available for reference. 



Resolved: That the Society endorses the following two 

 resolutions passed by the Section of Public Health and State 

 Medicine of the Australasian Medical Congress, held this 

 year in Brisbane, viz. : — 



"8. That this Congress is of opinion that the time has 

 arrived when a campaign of Preventive Medicine should be 

 made real and effective, and that with the object of carrying 

 out such an undertaking, and of fully utilizing existing agen- 

 cies, the Commonwealth Government be approached and 

 requested to appoint a Royal Commission to fully consider 

 and report. 



"That the personnel of such a Commission should con- 

 tain a considerable percentage of unofficial medical prac- 

 titioners, and also representatives of local governing bodies. 



"9. That this Congress recognizes the importance of pre- 

 venting the extinction of wild life in Australia, both on 

 grounds of scientific interest and of public health. It urges 

 on the various State Governments the advisability of making 

 reservations, biological areas in which the protection of the 

 remarkable Australian animals may be adequate." 



In this connection it was pointed out that this Society, 

 after a campaign of thirteen years, had succeeded in getting 



