XXV] . SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Occur in the Transvaal," in aid of the preparation of which the 

 Association made him a grant of £50. 



Mr. R. T. A. Innes, F.R.A.S., to whom a grant of £25 was made 

 in aid of the work of preparing tables of the barometric pressures 

 over South Africa and adjacent regions is still pursuing his in- 

 vestigations, and will present the final report on his work at the 

 Kimberley Meeting next year. 



Professor H. H. W. Pearson, M.A., F.L.S., read an abstract of the 



result of his researches on JFdioitschia unrubilis before Section 

 " K " of the British Association during the meeting in South Africa, 

 and the Council has agreed to consider this as a fulfilment of the 

 conditions under which the grant of £25 was made to him. 



It will be remembered that in connection witL the Session held in 

 Johannesburg in April, 1904, a small Loan Museum was organised. 

 This proved so successful that the Johannesburg Members of Council 

 appointed a Committee to report on the question of a permanent 

 Museum for Johannesburg. The Committee, in order to enlist the 

 sympathy of all classes of the community, and to co-ordinR^. all 

 interests, approached all the public bodies and scientific and technical 

 societies, with a view to including representatives from each. Nine- 

 teen Associations accepted the invitation, and that enlarged committee 

 now consists of thirty-six members under the chairmanship of 

 Mr. Julius Jeppe, with Professor John Orr as hon. secretary. A 

 definite scheme was formulated and pushed forward, but no pro- 

 gress can be made until more funds are available. The Witwaters- 

 rand Council of Education has subscribed £100. This Association has 

 lent for preliminary expenses £25, and the Town Council of Johan- 

 nesburg has promised £1,000 when £5,000 has been subscribed. 

 Gifts of a large number of skins and horns and geological specimens 

 have been made, while a number of valuable models have been 

 lent, which are temporarily housed in the Transvaal Technical 

 Institute Buildings. The Committee, with the assistance of the 

 Johannesburg Reception Committee, organised another Loan 

 Museum in connection with the visit of the British Association, a 

 large number of South African exhibits being shown, which proved 

 very interesting to the oversea and local visitors, over 2,000 of 

 whom visited the collection. It is hoped ere long to realise tlie 

 aims of the Committee by the organisation of a Museum worthy of 

 the chief mining town in South Africa. 



The meeting next year will be held at Kimberley, under the pre- 

 sidency of Mr. Gardner F. Williams, and will open on Monday, the 

 9th of July. 



Wm. Cullen, 



J. D. F. Gilchrist, 



Hon. Secretaries. 



