CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Officers and Council i 



Constitution OF THE South African Association ii 



RULES FOR THE AWARD OF MEDALS vii 



TABLES: Past Annual Meetings: — 



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



Secretaries ... ... ... ... ... ■. ... . • i:v 



Sectional Presidents and Secretaries ... ... ... ... x 



Evening Discourses ... ... ... ... ... ... xi 



CAPE TOWN MEETING, 1910 : — 



General Meetings xii 



Officers of Local and Sectional Committees ... xiii 



Proceedings of Eighth Annual General Meeting of Members xy 



Reports of Council, 1909-1910 ... xviii 



General Treasurer's Account, 1909-1910 ... ... xxi 



Award of the South Africa Medal (Plate i) xxvii 



Address by the President of the Associ.ation : Thos. Muir, 



C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E i 



Address by the President of Section A : Prof. J. C. Beattie. 



D.Sc, F.R.S.E 14 



Address by the President of Section B. : .\. W. Rogers, M..A., 



Sc.D., F.G.S ^<) 



Address by the President of Section C. : Prof. H. H. W. Pear- 

 son, M.A., Sc.D., F.L.S 37 



Address by the President of Section D. : Rev. W. Flint, D.D. 35 



Associ.ation Library ^^5 



List of Papers read at the Section./^l Meetings 67 



A Plea for the Sewerage of the Cape Peninsula ; T. W. Stain- 



THORPE, A.M.LC.E. ^10 



South African Alcyonaria ... ... ... ... ... ... 7^ 



Hygiene, as applied to School Life: A. H. Reid, F.R.LB.A., 



F. R.San. L ... 77 



Migration of Locust Birds ... ... ... ... ■■ ■■■ 85 



Abstract of Physical Observations taken during the proximity of 



Halley's Comet to the Earth : Prof. W. A. D. Rudge, M.A. S7 



Higher Education of Natives ... ... ... -■ Qi 



Some Notes on Resultant Gases from Certain Explosives : W. 



CULLEN <)2 



The Development of Gold Extraction Methods on the Witwaters- 



rand : H. A. White 06 



The Darwin Medal io3 



Le Verrier's Theory of the Motion of the Planets Jupiter and 



Saturn: R. T. A. Innes, F.R.A.S 104 



Aurora Australis ... ... ... ... ... ■•• '21 



Another View of Education in Primarv Schools : G. F. Ayers 



(Title only) 121 



Karroo Soil, Lucerne, and the Ostrich Feather : Prof. P. D. 



Hahn, Ph.D., M.A., and the late D. S. STEVENSON 122 



Arsenical Poisoning by Lacteal Transmission 128 



Stellar Evolution ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• ••• ■•• '31 



The Insizwa Copper-Nickel Deposits: J. G. Rose, F.C.S. ... 129 



Bushman Rock Pictures at D'sjate : Dr. H. A. Spencer ... 132 



Notes on Halley's Comet, 1910 : H. E. WOOD M.Sc, F.R.Met.S. 135 



Port Shepstone Marble ■ ■•• i37 



Irrigation Financial Problems in the Breede Valley : T. E. 



Sc.WE, M.LC.E 13S 



Zoological nomenclature ... ... ... ... ... ••• ••• '44 



The new Union Government Buildings, Pretoria : W. LuCAS, 



F.R.G.S., F.R.V.LA. '45 



Chemistry and Crops: A. StE.ad, B.Sc, F.C.S. ... 15,0 



The transferable vote in Municipal Elections: J. BROWN, M.D., 



CM., L.R.C.S.E ^^7 



