XXX REPORT OF COUNCIL. 



8. SouTPi Africa Medal and Grant, 1919: On the re- 

 commendation of the South Africa Medal Committee, consisting 

 of Dr. C. F. Juritz (Chairman), Principal J. C. Beattie, Prof. 

 J. W. Bews, Dr. W. A. Caldecott, Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, Prof. 

 H. B. Fantham, Mr. C. P. Lounsbury, Mr. R. E. Montgomery, 

 Prof. J. Orr, Prof. M. M. Rindl, Dr. A. W. Roberts and Sir 

 Arnold Theiler, your Council has awarded the South Africa 

 Medal, together with a grant of £56, to Dr. James Moir, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.I.C., Government Mining Chemist, Johannesburg. A 

 proposal was made to utilise the yearly surplus of the Medal 

 Fund for grants in aid of research, but it was decided that the 

 terms of conveyance did not permit of such a course. 



9. Grants for Research : Your Council has appointed 

 Prof. H. B. Fantham, Dr. C. F. Juritz, Mr. H. E. Wood and 

 Rev. Dr. Flint to represent the Association on the Research Grant 

 Committee of the Royal Society. The constitution of a Research 

 Grant Board was notified to Council by the Secretary for Educa- 

 tion last December, and in this connection it was suggested that 

 this Association should amalgamate with the Royal Society of 

 South Africa, and that the Board should in future receive the 

 grants for research hitherto made by Government to the Royal 

 Society and to the Association. Your Council, in replying, 

 expressed the hope that the Research Grant Board would give 

 due regard to the making of grants for research in pure science, 

 the proposed amalgamation being held by the general opinion of 

 the Council, after careful consicleration, to be impracticable. A 

 deputation waited on the Minister of Mines to solicit the con- 

 tinuance of the annual grant of £150; the request was complied 

 with, and the amount placed on the Estimates, passed by Parlia- 

 ment, and duly paid over to the x\ssociation. 



10. C0MPAR.A.TIVE Study of Natives: A resolution was 

 adopted by Council, recommending in view of the urgent need 

 of fundamental and thorough comparative study of the Natives 

 of South Africa, the importance of research into Native Philo- 

 logy, Ethnology, Psychology and Sociology, both for the advance- 

 nlent of knowledge and for the practical help of those whose 

 business it is to deal with the Nati\'es. Copies of the resolution 

 were forwarded to the Ministers of Native Affairs and Education 

 and to the Vice-Chancellors of the three Universities. The Re- 

 search Grand Board, to whom the matter had been referred by 

 the Minister of Education, expressed the view that research 

 into Native Philology, Ethnology, Psychology and Sociology are 

 subjects which fall within the purview of the Board, which 

 would, in dealing with applications concerning them, obtain the 

 advice of experts. 



11. Meteorological and Geophysical Research : Mention 

 was made in last report o'f the appointment of a Standing Com- 

 mittee on Meteorological and Geophysical Research, under the 

 Chairmanship of Prof. J. T. Morrison. No report from this Com- 

 mittee has vet been received. 



