Report of the Council for the Period from 13TH July, iqo6, 

 TO i6th July, 1907. 



The report of the Treasurer for the year ended 30th June, 1907^ 

 with financial statements, is api>ended : — 



From this it will be noted that there is a debit balance of jQ2t,i 

 14s. 5d. This must be considered a most unsatisfactory state of 

 affairs, and is due largely to the non-payment of arrear subscriptions. 

 Members in arrear with their subscriptions are therefore earnestly 

 requested to make every effort to pay the practically nominal amount, 

 the non-payment of which places the Association in an unnecessary 

 straitened position. The outstanding subscriptions on 30th June, 1907, 

 amounted to about ;^5oo, and the Council had, with regret, to enforce 

 the rule dealing with members whose subscriptions are in arrear for 

 three or more years, thereby removing from the register the names of 

 eighty-three members. 



Reports re Grants. — The Council has received reports from the 

 following to whom grants in aid of research were made : — ■ 



a. Mr. J. Stuart Thompson on the Alcyonaria of Cape Colony 



and Natal. 



b. Prof. J. C. Beattie on Earth Magnetism in South Africa. 



c. Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist on the Investigation of the Fresh Water 



Fishes of South Africa. 



d. Dr. A. W. Roberts on Astronomy. 



e. Dr. J. E. Duerden on Tortoises. 



Xo further report has been received from Mr. J. Burtt-Davy 

 with regard to the progress of his work on an " Annotated Catalogue 

 of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Transvaal." This is 

 presumably owing to Mr. Burtt-Davy's absence from South Africa. 



Standing Committees on Education and Anthropology were 

 formed in November. 1905. The Educational Committee has 

 presented a report for this meeting which has been read before 

 Section E. and F. A new Anthropological Committee has been con- 

 stituted to which the sum of ^10 has already been voted, and this 

 becomes payable during the current year. 



Rules with regard to grants have been framed by the Council, 

 and are appended : — 



Sargant Prize. — The Council has awarded the Sargant prize of 

 ^25 to the Rev. H. A. Junod for an essay on " The Best Means of 

 Preserving the Traditions and Customs of the Various South African 

 Native Races." The essay by Dr. H. Lyster Jameson, entitled " An 

 Ethnographic Bureau for South Africa," was also very highly com- 

 mended bv the adjudicators. Both the foregoing essavs are printed 

 in this volume. 



S.A.. Medal Fund. — The Council has framed rules for the con- 

 stitution of a Medal Committee, and the procedure to be adopted in 

 making the award. (See appendix). 



