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are in existence : Educational Standing Committee, Anthropo- 

 logical Standing Committee and Forestry Standing Committee ; 

 but, owing to a number of members being away on holidays and 

 other causes, no reports have been received from them during the 

 past year. 



An amount of £20 has been received from the Transvaal Govern- 

 ment as a grant towards the objects of the Anthropological Com- 

 mittee, which has not yet been expended, the works of this 

 Committee being held in abeyance pending the result of the repre- 

 sentations which were being made to the Transvaal Government. 



10. Prize Scheme. — A suggestion was considered by your Council 

 regarding the advisability or otherwise of inaugurating a Prize 

 Scheme for the purpose of arousing a greater interest in science 

 amongst students. A forward movement has now been made. 

 Our President, H.E. Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams, has offered the 

 Association a die for medals to be awarded annually, which your 

 Council has gratefully accepted, and the medals to be struck and 

 so awarded will be entitled the Goold-Adams Medals. 



11. Standardising Laboratory. — Following a resolution passed 

 at the Natal Meeting in 1907 the question of a Standardising Labora- 

 tory was discussed at length by the Johannesburg Council, and 

 eventually a deputation from that Council waited upon the Acting 

 Premier of the Transvaal and urged the establishment of such an 

 Institution. The Minister, who was most sympathetic in his 

 attitude, promised to bring the subject before his colleagues on 

 their return from England, and it is hoped that the Government 

 will be induced to give the matter their activ'e support. 



12. Meeting in iqio. — Cordial invitations have been received 

 from the Mayor of Cape Town and the Government of ^Mozambique to 

 hold the next annuil meeting at Cape Town and Lourenco ^Marques 

 (Delagoa Bay). In view of the Union of South Africa, your Council 

 recommends that the invitation from Cape Town should be accepted 

 for next year, and that if possible the invitation from Lourenco 

 ]Marques be accepted for 191 1. 



It is hoped that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will be induced to 

 accept the office of President for the Cape Town Meeting. 



13. General. — During the year Dr. J. McCrae, the Honorary 

 Treasurer, resigned the position on account of his leaving for 

 England on leave, and the Council appointed Dr. R. A. Lehfeldt 

 to the position thus vacated. 



Your thanks are due to the foregoing gentlemen, and to the 

 Hon. General Secretaries, Dr. Gilchrist and Mr. Innes, and to Mr. 

 Cullen, who acted for Mr. Innes during the latter's absence in 

 England ; and for many services rendered during the past year : 

 to the Hon. Auditors, Mr. J. M. P. Muirhead (Cape Town) and 

 Mr. M. B, Gardner (Johannesburg) for kindly auditing the Associa- 

 tion's accounts ; to Dr. Schonland, Professors Ogg, Kidd and 

 Schwarz, and Messrs. Mally, Gane and Hammond-Tooke, the 

 Publication Committee responsible for the report of the Grahams- 

 town Meeting, who accomplished much good work in that 

 connection, and to the members of the South Africa Medal Com- 

 mittee. 



