REPORT OF COUNCIL. XIX 



compelled to tender his resignation. Your Council highly 

 appreciates the devotion to the interests of the Association 

 which has invariably characterised Mr. Jones' services, and 

 keenly regrets the necessity of accepting his resignation. 



6. Report of the Bloemfontein Meeting, 1909. — At the 

 last Annual Meeting a motion was submitted by Professor 

 Potts to the effect " that steps be taken to render more money 

 available for purposes of publication." That motion was 

 withdrawn on the understanding that it would be acted upon 

 by Council, chiefly in the direction of publishing the proceed- 

 ings of the Annual Session in the form of a monthly journal, 

 capable of being bound, at the close of the year, into a volume 

 uniform with the Annual Reports previously issued by the 

 Association. When the year now under report closed, eight 

 monthly issues of that journal had appeared, at a cost of about 

 £210, and it was anticipated that when complete the volume 

 would be almost equal in size to the Report of the Johannes- 

 burg Aleeting in 1904. 



7. Gr.\nts for Rese.\rch. — No further applications for 

 grants have been considered, nor has your Council received 

 any further reports from Dr. A. W. Roberts, Dr. J. D. F. 

 Gilchrist, and Dr. J. Stuart Thomson, to whom grants had 

 previously been issued. Dr. Roberts will, however, it is under- 

 stood, read a paper on the progress of his work on variable 

 stars during the present Session. 



8. South Africa Medal Fund. — On the recommendation 

 of the South Africa Medal Committee, consisting of Rev. Dr. 

 Flint, Prof. L. Crawford, Dr. A. H. Watkins.^Mr. J. Lyle, 

 M.A.. Mr. S. S. Hough, F.R.S., Prof. S. Schonland, Mr. T. 

 Reunert, Dr. G. S. Corstorphine, Dr. C. F. Juritz, Mr. W. 

 Cullen, Dr. Theiler, and Mr. E. X. Xevill, F.R.S., the third 

 award of the South Africa I\Iedal and a grant of £50 has been 

 made to Professor J. C. Beattie, D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



The Medal Fund (exclusive of the above £50) now amounts 

 to £1,402, of which £1,376 is invested in a Cape Treasury Bih. 

 drawing interest at the rate of four per cent, per annum. 



Drs. Flint. Crawford, and Watkins, and Mr. Lyle retire by 

 rotation from the Medal Committee at this meeting, and it will 

 devolve upon you to appoint their successors. Owing to the 

 difficulty experienced in the past in obtaining the requisite 

 number of votes in connection with the award, your Council 

 recommends that only those should be appointed members of 

 the Medal Committee who are not likely, through absence from 

 South Africa, to be unable to record their votes when the time 

 for awarding the 191 1 medal arrives, and with this object in 

 view certain amendments to the medal rules have been drafted 

 and will be submitted for your consideration at this meeting. 



9. Constitution. — The practical difficulty of adhering in all 

 points to the provisions of the Constitution, as at present laid 

 down, was borne in upon your Council within a short time of 

 taking" office : a Committee, consisting of Mr. Muirhead, Rev. 

 Dr. Flint, Air. Cullen, Dr. ]\Ioir, Mr. Innes, and Dr. Juritz 

 was therefore appointed to consider the matter. This Com- 



