REPORT OF COUNCIL. XIX 



The present number of Life Members is 84, one having died 

 during the year, and five having been added. 



3. Report of the Maritzburg Meeting, 1916: This, the 

 thirteenth annual volume of the Transactions of the Association, 

 has been completed and bound in uniformity with the previous 

 issues of the series. It comprises 57 papers printed in full, and 23 

 by title only, making a volume of 714 pages. 



4. Report of the Stellenbosch Meeting, 1917: The issue 

 of this is well advanced in the Journal form, and the complete 

 volume should be available at a much earlier date than last 

 year. 



5. Journal Expenditure: This has engaged the serious 

 attention of the Council at several meetings during the year. 

 Owing to the fact of the late publication of some of the numbers 

 of the Journal containing the papers read at the Maritzburg 

 meeting, the balance-sheet presented at the last Annual General 

 Meeting did not reflect the true position of the Association, as 

 was pointed out by the Treasurer. A Sub-committee was 

 appointed early in the year, consisting of two sections representa- 

 tive of Capetown and Johannesburg, to consider and report upon 

 the financial situation, and a deputation waited upon the Minister 

 of Education with a view of obtaining a Government Grant 

 towards the expense of publishing the Transactions of the Asso- 

 ciation. It was hoped that a sum of £250 might be obtained, 

 and in due course the sum of £150 was voted by Parliament, and 

 has been received. Without this sum the Council would have been 

 unable to fulfil its obligations. The Council desires to place on 

 record its thanks to the Minister of Education for his interest in 

 the work of the Association. Ir must also he noted that by resolu- 

 tion of the Council the sum of £150, together with £19 6s. 9d. in 

 interest, was withdrawn from the bank, where it had been 

 deposited in more favourable years, and was placed in the general 

 fund. A special effort in Johannesburg to obtain subscriptions 

 has added to the funds of the Association the sum of £150, and 

 the thanks of the Council are due to the Sub-committee. The 



