vi CONTENTS. 



PAGK 



Place-names of Africa, No. II: Rev. W. A. Nokton, B.A.. B.Litt. 



(Title only) , 637 



Note on the occurrence of a peculiar phosphate of aluminiam in a 



deposit of Bat guano : B. de C Marchand, B.A., D.Sc 63S 



More Sesuto etymologies: Rev. W. A. Norton, B.A.. B.Litt. (Title 



only) 639 



Reconstitution of the Union Senate: R. T. A. Inne-s, F.R.A.S.. 



F.R.S.E. (Title only) 639 



Decimal coinage: Prof W. A. Macfadyen, M.A., LL.D. (Title only) 639 

 Vicarious parenthood: a war suggestion: Mrs. F. McLaren (Title 



onlv) 639 



War and the value of money: Prof. R. Leslie, M.A., F.S.S. (Title 



only) ...... ... 639 



Some experiments on the fate of arsenic in the animal body: H. H. 



Green. D.Sc, and C. D. Dyk.man, M.A 64O 



National Chemical Service 651 



Some preliminary observations on unseasonable veld-burning; and 



its possible relation to some stock diseases : A. (). D. Mogg, 



B.A. (Abstract) 653 



The philologv of the Native languages ( Zulu and Xosa) : Rev. 



S. G. G.'AiTCHisoN, M.A., D.D. (Title only) 653 



Wasted South African resources ; coal and its bye-products : A. 



Kloot, B.A., A.LC. (Abstract) ... 654 



The evolution of a Native administration: Rev. T. R. L. Kingon, 



^]. A.. F.R.S.E.. F.L.S. (Title only) " 655 



Notes on the morphology and life history of Uromyces Aloes Cooke : 



V. A. PuTTERiLL, B.A. (Plates 22, 23, and six text Agures) ... 656 



Scientific labour union 662 



The Kap-tent wagon : J. Y. Gibson (Plate 24) 663 



The geophone 669 



Notes on the genus Balansia: Miss A. M. King, B.A. (Plate 25 and 



four text figures) 670 



Paper from sugar cane leaves 67s 



Smoke screens ... ... ... ... ... ... ... • • • • • • 073 



Native child life: Rev. S. G. G. Aitchison, M.A., D.D 674 



Concrete sleepers 679 



Discontinuous distribution in a few mammalian groups: T. F. 



Dreyer, B.A., Ph.D 680 



Central African Folk-lore tales: Rev J. R. L. Kingon, M.A., 



F.R.S.E., F.L.S. (Title only) 689 



A new type of accurate sundial or solar clock: J. Moir, M.A., D.Sc, 



F.LC. (Plate 26.) ... 690 



Some photographic illustrations of South African vegetation: LB. 



Pole- Evans, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S. (Title only) 693 



Synthesis of sugars 693 



Native customs in relation to small-pox amongst the Ba-Ronga : 



Rev. H. A. JuNOD 694 



Infantile paralysis ... , 702 



Nitrogenous products . . . 702 



A philological method of exhibiting classical declensions and conju- 

 gations : Rev. W. A- Norton. P. A.. I' 703 



On the heterocerous fauna of Southern Rhodesia : A. J. T. Janse, 



FES 708 



Bacteriological production of acetone 711 



.\ survey of aboriginal place-names: Rev. J. R. L. Kingon, M.A.. 



F.R.S.E., F.L.S 712 



Helium foi dirigibles ... 779 



A rapid approximate method of calculating the occultation of stars 



bv the moon (for the Central Transvaal) : J. Moir, M.A., D.Sc, 



F.I.C 780 



Officers and Council, 1918-19 i 



List of Members Hi 



Index xxxvii 



