12 PRE'SENTATION OP SENIOR SCOTT MEDAL 



Presentation of the Capt. Scott Memorial Medal 

 to Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, on 15t/i May, 1919. 



Ill presenting to Dr. Pole Evans the second Senior Capt. 

 Scott Memorial Medal as is nij privilege to do, it is 

 hardly necessary to say much about his work in South 

 Africa or of his relationship to the Society, for with the 

 details of this many of you are more familiar than I have 

 ever had the opportunity of being. 



From the foundation of the Transvaal Biological 

 Society, Dr. Pole Evans was closely associated with the 

 Society and those members who still remember the early 

 days of this Society Avill know, that his laboratory was 

 its birthplace as well as the place of meeting as long as 

 AW were a small family of about twelve members. 



Nobody would have thought in those days of a meeting 

 without the presence of Sir Arnold Theiler, Dr. Gunning, 

 Mr. Howard and \)y. Pole Evans and the incomplete list 

 given in the elournal of the S.A.B.S. of Dr. Pole Evans' 

 papers read and discussed at the meetings, gives some 

 idea of the interest he then took in the Society. 



To members who are not intimate with the branch of 

 research to which Dr. Pole Evans has devoted so many 

 years, the following information will be welcome, 

 especially as it is, at the same time, a short history of 

 the ontogenesis of phyto-pathological research in South 

 Africa. 



Tlltyd Buller Pole Evans received his early education 

 at the Cowbridge Grammar School and took the degree 

 of B.Sc, at the University College of South Wales, 

 Monmoutlishire, Cardiff in 1903. From there he went to 

 tlie Selwyn College, Cambridge, ami altliough it Avas his 

 original intention to study medicine, fortunately for the 

 study of Botany in S.A., he abandoned this idea, and 

 took up tlie study of plnnt-pathology and mycology, under 

 the direction of the most celebrated of English phyto- 

 })athologists, Marshall Ward. 



