XX REPORT OF COUNCIL. 



mittee has submitted an amended Constitution, which, together 

 with some further amendments, subsequently proposed, will 

 be laid before you for consideration. 



10. Lectures. — The South African Lectures for 1910 have 

 been delivered by Mr. Henry Balfour, M.A., Curator of the 

 Pitt Rivers Museum. The subject of the lectures was 

 Anthropology, and the following aspects were variously dealt 

 with by the lecturer : — 



1. Anthropology as a branch of Science, and as a subject 

 of Academic study; 



2. Ethnology and Archaeology; 



3. Evolution in the Arts and Industries of man; 



4. Some African problems, ethnological and archaeolo- 

 gical; 



5. The influence of environment upon primitive people; 



6. African musical instruments, their development and 

 ethnological bearing; 



7. The beginnings of realistic and decorative art. 



The South African towns visited by Mr. Balfour in the course 

 of his lecturing tour were : Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, 

 Grahamstown, East London, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, 

 Harrismith, Bloemfontein, Kimberley, Johannesburg, Pretoria, 

 Modderfontein, and Krugersdorp. 



11. Standing Committees. — The Educational, Anthropo- 

 logical, and P'orestry Standing Committees are still in exist- 

 ence, but for at least two years no reports have been received 

 from them. The following reference in last year's report con- 

 tinues to hold good: — "An amount of £20 has been received 

 from the Transvaal Government as a grant towards the objects 

 of the Anthropological Committee, which has not yet been 

 expended, the work of this Committee being held in abeyance 

 pending the result of the representations which w'ere being- 

 made to the Transvaal Government." 



12. Goold-Adams Medals. — A die for the medals presented 

 hy Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams. G.C.M.G.. late Governor of 

 the Orange River Colony, and President of the Bloemfontein 

 Meeting of this Association, has now been completed, and 

 your Council has adopted the following rules with reference to 

 the award of the medals : — 



1. That the medals be awarded on the joint results of 

 the Matriculation and University Senior Certificate Exam- 

 inations of the University of the Cape of Good Hope. 



2. That one medal be awarded to the student who has 

 taken the highest place in each of the seven Science sub- 

 jects : (i) Physics, (2) Chemistry, (3) Elementary Physical 

 Science, (4) Botany, (5) Zoology, (6) Elementary Natural 

 Science, and (7) Mathematics, as set forth in the Univer- 

 sity Calendar as common to the University Matriculation 

 Examination and the University Senior Certificate Exam- 

 ination. 



3. That the standard of marks be not less than 65 per 

 cent, of the maximum. 



4. That the medals be struck in bronze. 



