XXV 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR ENDED 



30TH JUNE, 1915. 



1. Obituary: Since the last x^nnual Session of the Asso- 

 ciation your Council has had to deplore the decease of Sir 

 George Farrar, Bart., and Captain F. H. Harrison, local Secre- 

 tary at Kimberley during- last Session, both of whom met their 

 death in connection with the military operations in German 

 South-West Africa. 



2. Sir Thomas Muir: Your Council desires to record its 

 appreciation of the honour of Knighthood, which His Majesty 

 the King has been pleased to bestow on Dr. Thomas Muir, 

 F.R.S., Superintendent of Education in the Cape Province, who 

 was President of this Association during its meeting at Cape 

 Town in 1910. 



3. Membership: The disturbed state of South Africa, due 

 to the war and the late rebellion, is no doubt responsible in part 

 for the fact that the number of new members elected during the 

 last twelve months was only 25 — a figure far below the average. 

 The deaths of four members, including the two whose names 

 have been mentioned above, have been reported during the year, 

 and 53 have resigned, or were removed from the roll of mem- 

 bership on account of non-payment of subscriptions for two 

 years or longer, or because their address is unknown. The 

 Association, therefore, numbered 32 members fewer on the ist 

 July, 191 5, than on the corresponding date of last year. 



The following table compares the number of members on 

 the Association books on the two dates, and their distribution : — 



1914. 1915. 



Cape Province 218 212 



Transvaal 232 216 



Orange Free State 35 35 



Natal 24 23 



Rhodesia 24 20 



Basutoland 3 3 



Mozambique 24 19 



Swaziland i i 



German South-West Africa 3 2 



Abroad 14 15 



Unknown I I 



Total 579 547 



4. Life Members: Consequent upon the amendment of 

 Section IV (c) of the Constitution, adopted at the Annual 

 General Meeting at Kimberley on the 9th July, 1914, whereby 

 ordinary members of ten years' standing, who had paid their 

 subscriptions regularly without intermission, acquired the 



