THE 



SOUTH AFKICAN JOUK 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Vol. III. JUNE, 1921 No. 1 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1920. 



Your Council in presenting its Report to Members this year 

 does so with more confidence than was possible in the past. 



The Membership Roll now includes 219 Members, all of 

 whom have paid their subscriptions up to date. During the 

 year we have lost one member through death, 6 members have 

 resigned as from the end of this year, and your Council has 

 been reluctantly compelled to remove 20 Members from the 

 roll owing to non-payment of subscriptions. The pleasing 

 feature is the number of new members who have joined during 

 the year, viz. 7 1 , which shows that the Society is appealing to. 

 a large section of the public. If this steady increase of new 

 members can be maintained we may look with every confidence 

 to the future of our Society. 



Perhaps one of the most important events in the history of 

 the Society is the formation of a Branch at Cape Town with 

 a Membership of 24. Prof. H. R. Compton, Director of 

 National Botanic Gardens, is the first President of the Branch 

 and Mr. V. A. Putterill, M.A., the Hon. Secretary and 

 Treasurer. There is no reason to doubt that the Cape Town 

 Branch will become, a most flourishing section of the Society. 



