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The South Australian Naturalist. 
Flotver Shozv, 1923 . — The net proceeds were £25 15/8. We 
arc greatly indebted to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor for grant- 
ing the use of the Town Hall on payment of working expenses. 
Only for this the show would have been a financial loss. 
i\ at-uralist.”~Our journal has been issued regularly 
under the able editorship of Mr. Wm. Ham, and Volume V. has 
now been completed, 
J. B. CLELAND, Chairman. 
E. H. ISING, Hon. Secretary. 
LIBRARIAN’S REPORT. 
During the year under review, members have availed them- 
selved to a fair extent of the Library of the Section, but this is 
now so cramped for room that the books have simply to lie one 
on top of another, with the result that quite a protracted search 
is necessary to drag them from their hiding-places. While the 
addition of volumes relating to Nature Study in all its branches 
is greatly to be desired, their appropriate housing is a matter of 
such urgency, that it is difficult to prevent the books from over- 
flowing the meagre cupboard in which they remain merely on 
sufferance. 
I. M. J. ROBERTS. 
August, 1924. 
Congratulating the society on a successful year, crowned by 
the opportunity afforded members of participating in the Adelaide 
meeting of the Australian Association for the Advancement of 
Science, the retiring chairman (Professor J. B. Cleland), referred 
to the material increase in membership and the maintenance of a 
high level of enthusiasm. Their members, drawn from many 
walks of life, promised to render to the community services of the 
first importance. Two new departures were specially worthy of 
mention — the institution of an Herbarium and the systematic bota- 
nical and geological survey of our National Park and other re- 
serves near Adelaide. The number of plants collected had as- 
sumed formidable proportions. Mr. L. Reese, of the Minnie 
Downs Station, on the Birdsville track, had forwarded 150 species 
of plants, with notes as to locality and fodder value. These had 
been identified by Mr. J. M. Black, and one new species disco- 
vered. With regard to the plant survey, Mr. J. A. Hogan had 
rendered invaluable assistance. Seeds of native flora sent to Mr. 
T. F. Bailev. and planted in plots at the Botanical Gardens, had 
germinated well. On the completion of the survey it was pur- 
posed to publish a semi-popular account of the animals and plants 
embraced by the survey. The importance of assiduous collecting 
was emphasised. Mosses and lichens were pointed out as groups 
