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specimens of interest. It should be noted that a number of 

 the members have been working, as opportunity offered, far 

 afield in our own State and in the other States. Wherever 

 they have travelled their collections have been carefully 

 noted, and those who have not had the good fortune to get 

 far away from the usual fields for work have shared in the 

 benefit of observations and collections by others on their 

 return at the evening meetings. 



The membership of the Section has been largely added 

 to during the year, and the evening meetings well attended. 



The committee looks back upon the year's work with 

 considerable satisfaction from scientific, collecting, and social 

 points of view. 



R. Pulleine, Chairman. 



E. H. Lock, Hon. Secretary. 



TWENTY - FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 

 NATIVE FAUNA AND FLORA PROTECTION 

 COMMITTEE OF THE FIELD NATURALISTS' 

 SECTION OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH 

 AUSTRALIA FOR THE YEAR ENDED SEPTEM- 

 BER, 1912. 



New Chairman: 

 Your committee has to report that Mr. Samuel Dixon, 

 after acting as Chairman for twenty-three years, had at the last 

 Annual Meeting of this Section resigned the position and 

 retired from the committee. Mr. Edwin Ashby was appointed 

 Chairman in his place. 



Flinders Chase, Kangaroo Island. 

 The committee is pleased to report that, though no longer 

 one of its number, Mr. Dixon has continued to take an active 

 interest in the work, and recently, with the President of the 

 Royal Society (Dr. Verco), Mr. Ashby, and Captain White, 

 waited upon the Commissioner of Crown Lands (the Hon. F. 

 W. Young) to again urge upon the Government the desirability 

 of further extending the area of the Reserve, the fencing otf 

 with a vermin-proof fence, the appointment of a ranger to 

 protect the fauna and flora, and the vesting of the land in 

 Trustees. The committee understands that the suggestions 

 were favourably received by the Commissioner, who said he 

 would introduce into Parliament a Bill for the purpose of 

 carrying them out. 



