ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
Ill 
As the outcome also of the reading of Mr. J. G. Hay’s 
paper on “ Bird Day,” a sub-committee was formed which 
recommended the establishment of a Gould League of Bird 
Lovers, which promises to do much for the preservation of 
our useful feathered friends. 
Some changes have taken place during the year among 
the office-bearers, Mr. A. O. Watkins being elected to the 
Council in the room of Mr. F. G. Brown, whose resignation 
was accepted with regret. The retirement of Mr. C. P. 
Conigrave from holding office as also from the Society as 
a member was accepted in the month of September last, 
and Mr. E. S. Simpson for some time kindly consented to 
act as Honorary Secretary until the eve of his departure 
on a visit to New South Wales, when Mr. J. G. Hay took 
up the office at present held. 
During the year iqio-ii there were held 17 Council 
meetings, at which Mr. Hay attended 3 (being appointed 
latterly Acting Honorary Secretary in the room of Mr. 
Simpson, on his visiting New South Wales for a holiday) ; 
Mr. Watkins, 3 (having accepted a vacant seat caused by 
the resignation of Mr. F. G. Brown) ; Mr. Grasby, 5 ; Mr. 
Lee, 8 ; Mr. Cooke, 11 ; Mr. Maitland, 12 ; Mr. Simpson, 
14 ; Dr. Tratman, 16 ; Mr. Giles, 17 ; and Dr. Thorp, 17. 
For a portion of the period the President (Mr. A. Gibb 
Maitland) was indisposed, and unable to attend the 
meetings, whilst Messrs. Simpson, Lee and Cooke were 
granted leave of absence while away from the State. 
The financial position of the Society was such as to 
preclude the possibility of bringing out a fresh number of 
the Journal until lately, when No. 2 of Vol. Ill was placed 
in the hands of the printer. This number will be found 
to contain some valuable and interesting articles in all 
branches of the Society’s work. 
The Council has also much pleasure in announcing that 
since the last Annual Meeting a number of valuable additions 
has been made to the Library, which now includes a quantity 
of bound volumes of the “ Proceedings of the Royal Society 
of South Australia,” many works on Botany and Zoology, 
besides paper copies of productions of societies in Australia 
and elsewhere. 
Your Council has further satisfaction in stating that 
the preparation of a complete index of the volumes already 
issued by the Society has been undertaken, and it is hoped 
that the general utility of will be found proportionate 
to the labour and time bestowed upon its preparation. 
In the month of June the Society received a request 
to vacate the premises occupied gratuitously for some time 
past in the Agricultural Department, the room being required 
