TENTS. 



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Officers and Council ... ... ... ... ... I 



Tables : Past Annual jMeetincs : — 



Places and Dates, Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Local Secre- 

 taries ... ... ... ... ... ... ii 



Sectional Presidents and Secretaries ... ... ... iv 



Evening- Disconrses ... ... ... ... ... vi 



LOURENXO MARQUES MEETING. 1913:— 



General Meetings ... ... ... ... ... vii 



Officers of Local and Sectional Committees ... ... viii 



Proceedings of Eleventh Annual General Meeting of Memliers x 



Report of Council. 1912-1913 ... ... ... ... xiii 



General Treasurer's Account, 1912-1913 ... ... ... .xvii 



Sixth Award of the South Africa Medal (Plate i ) . . . ... xxi 



Association Library ... ... ... ... ... xxv 



Address bv the President of the Association: Dr. A. W. Roberts, 



D.Sc, F.R.A.S., F.R.S.E. ... ... ... ... i 



Address by the President of Section A : J. H. von Hafe ... 12 

 Address by the President of Section B: Prof. R. B. Young, M.A., 



D.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.G.S.... .... ... ... ... 17 



Address by the President of Section C: A. L. M. Bonn, C.E. ... 24 



Address by the President of Section D: J. A. Foote, F.G.S., 



F.E.LS. ... ... ... ... ... ... 28 



List of Papers ri:.\ii .\t thk Si-:ctio\.\l Meictings ... ... 35 



SIR W. F. HELY-HUTCHINSON, G.C.M.G., M'.A., LL.D. 



(Plate 2) ... ... ... ... ... ... S7 



Jubacopsis caffra Becc. : a new genus of palmae from Pondoland : 



Prof. R. Marloth. !^I..\., Ph.D. ... ... ... .... 42 



A new oil-yielding tree from Lourengo Marques ... ... 43 



Star positions and galactic co-ordinates: R. T. A. Innes, F.R.A.S... 44 



Dicoma anomala ... ... ... ... ... 50 



Utilitarianism and researcli . . ... ... ... ... 50 



Root knot in the tomato : Prof. H. A. Wager, A.R.C.Sc. (Plate 3 and 



"ne te.xt rigure) ... ... . . ., ... ... 51 



Westphal's Comet ... ... ... ... ... ~,t, 



The rtlation of High Schools to the Universitv Technical College : 



W". J. Horne. M.1..M.E., A.M.LE.E. .". . ... ... 54 



Cure for sleeping sickness... ... ... ... ... 6.?, 



Histor}- of early Portuguese discoveries and exploration in Africa : 



S. Seruya (S text figures) ... ... ... ... 67 



Microbe of hydropholsia • • ■ ., ... ... ... ... 80 



A plea for the exact measurement of rainfall : E. Flowers, C.E., 



F.R.A.S.. F.R.G.S. (one text figure) ... ... ... 81 



Lightning conductors at St. Paul's Cathedral... ... ... 86 



Amphibian poison ... ... ... ... ... ... 86' 



Volcanic dust and climatic change ... ... ... ... 8& 



On the development of the planula in certain species of Plitiiinlaria : 



Prof. E. Warren, D.Sc... ... ... ... ... 87 



■The bearing- of recent discoveries of early Tertiary shells, near 



Trinidad Island and in Brazil, on hypothetical land routes 



between South America and Africa : C. J. Maury, Ph.D. ... 92 



Health conditions on the Isthmus of Panama : S. Evans ... ... 99 



Etiology of cancer . . ... ... ... ... ... 104 



On a meteorite from N'Kandhla District, Zululand : Prof. G. H. 



STANLEY, A.R.S.M.. F.I.C. (Plates 4-7, and one text figure) 105 



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