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S.A. NAT., VOL. NV. 
Brief History F . N . S . June 12th. 1934. 
Air. Ashby succeeded Mr. Dixon in 1911 as Chairman of 
b. & F., and Mr. M. S. Clark, after about 19 years as Secretary 
of the F. & F. Committee, retired in the year 1913/14. 
On May 1st, 1918; Mr. Ashby resigned his Chairmanship 
prior to leaving for America, and Capt. S. A. White was elected 
as Chairman. In the same year the Royal Society took a hand 
and elected a committee comprising Messrs. S. Dixon. J. M. Black 
and Captain W hite to arrange a deputation to the Attorney- 
General, Mr. H. N. Barwell. A circular was issued, setting out 
the objects of the Chase and circulated among members of both 
Houses of Parliament and others. It was not until 1919 (26 
years after the agitation began) that the long-awaited results of 
our labours for Flinders Chase were rewarded by the passing of 
the desired Act which was assented to on October 16th. 1919. 
Its short title is “Fauna and Flora Reserve Act, 1919;” a Board 
was constituted called the “Fauna and Flora Board of South 
Australia,” and all the Crown Lands in the schedule (coloured 
red in a map of Kangaroo Island) were vested in this Board for 
the “purchase of a Reserve for the protection, preservation and 
propagation of Fauna and Flora, and, .as a pleasure resort, and 
for the other purposes of this Act. The said lands shall be called 
£ Flinders Chase’.” The Surveyor-General recently informed me 
that the total area of the Reserve is 198 square miles. You re¬ 
member we wanted 300 square miles. 
Apart from the great achievement of securing (or helping to 
secure) these National Reserves, the F. & F. Committee have 
all along kept a watchful eye on Game Acts, assisting in their 
introduction, and calling attention to their infringements. Such 
animals as kangaroos, opossums, wallabies, seals, birds, etc., as 
well as plant life have come under their purview. I am glad to 
say that the present Chairman of the F. 5c F. Committee (Lt.- 
Col. D. Fulton) is very keen on its objects and is taking special 
interest in the due observance of the wild-duck season. 
WILD FLOWER SHOWS. 
Of recent years these have been an important feature in our 
activities. The first “comprehensive show of this kind,” tc quote 
the words ol ihe Annual Report, was held in October, 1920, and 
was very' successful. It was not the first “show of native plants, ’ 
for that was held in the Banqueting Room of the Town Hall on 
October 25th, 1888—45 years ago—when we were only 5 years 
old. The native plants then were represented mostly by pressed 
specimens, for we were anxious not to be charged with the 
