APPENDICES. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' SECTION 



OF THE 



Ijtogal Snrittg of Soittjj gttrstralia (Jtttorporateb). 



TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 

 COMMITTEE 



For the Year Ended September 17, 1912. . 



Monthly Meetings, Lectures, and Addresses. 



September 19, 1911. — The Annual Meeting of this Sec- 

 tion was held on this date, when the formal business of 

 receiving the Committee's Report and the Hon. Treasurer's 

 Statement of Accounts was transacted. The Report of the 

 Fauna and Flora Protection Committee was read, and the 

 election of officers took place for the ensuing year as follows : — 

 Field Naturalists' Committee — Chairman, Dr. R. H. 

 Pulleine ; Vice -Chair men, Messrs. A. G. Edquist and J. M. 

 Black; Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. H. Lock; Hon. Treasurer, 

 Mr. S. S. Stokes; Hon. Minute Secretary, Miss E. Hocking; 

 Committee, Messrs. M. S. Clark, J. Willmott, J. G. O. Tep- 

 per, and J. W. Mellor, Dr. R. S. Rogers, Mr. W. H. Selway, 

 and Mesdames J. F. Mellor and R. S. Rogers; Auditors, 

 Messrs. J. S. Lloyd and Walter D. Reed. Fauna and Flora 

 Protection Committee — Messrs. M. S. Clark and S. Dixon, 

 Drs. R. S. Rogers and W. Ramsay Smith, Messrs. E. Ashby, 

 E. H. Lock, J. W. Mellor, A. Zietz, W. H. Selway, J. M. 

 Black, and A. G. Edquist, and the Chairman and Secretary 

 of the Section ex officio. 



Mr. S. Dixon read a farewell address as Chairman of the 

 Fauna and Flora Protection Committee. Mr. Dixon regretted 

 having to resign the position of Chairman after an occupa- 

 tion of the position for twenty-three successive years. He 

 wished now to make way for a younger man. He referred to 

 the first resolution made by the late Mr. A. F. Robin that 

 was passed by the committee twenty-three years ago as fol- 

 lows — "That in furtherance of the proposed objects, this Sec- 



