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by the issue of two more such parts. It will theretore be 

 somewhat smaller in size than the Bloemfontein Report. 



6. South Africa Medal Fund. — ^On the reoonDmcadation 

 of the South Africa Medal Committee, consisting of Mr. S. S. 

 Hough, M.A., F.R.S., Prof. S. Schonland, M.A., Ph.D.. Mr. 

 T. Reunert, Dr. G. S. Corstorphine, Dr. C. F. Juritz, Mr W. 

 Cullen, Dr. A. Theiler, C.M.G.. Mt. E. N. Nevill. F.R.S., F.T.C.. 

 Prof. G. Potts. M.Sc. Ph.D.. Prof. T. C. Beattie. D.Sc. 

 F.R.S.E.. Prof. L. Crawford. D.Sc, F.R.S.E., and Dr. J. R. 

 Sutton, the fourth award of the South Africa Medal, together 

 Avith a grant of £50. has been made to Dr. Louis Peringuev, 

 F.E.S., F.Z.S. 



The 'Medal Fund (exclusive of the above £50) now amounts 

 to ii,4o8, of which £1,376 is invested in a Cape Treasury Bill 

 and bears interest at the rate of four per cent, per annum. 



The difficulty of obtaining votes from members of the 

 Medal Committee when the time for the annual award draws 

 near and those members are absent from the Union, impressed 

 upon your Council the necessity of amending the rules regu- 

 lating the award. The amendments referred to in the last 

 Annual Report were unfortunately precluded from consideration 

 at the Cape Town meeting last year. They will now again be 

 submitted to you. 



7. Constitution. — Other difficulties have also been ex- 

 perienced by Council in its desire to adhere in all points to the 

 spirit, if not in the letter, of the Constitution, and the mandate 

 which you placed upon the Council last year, to appoint a 

 special committee for the purpose of considering amendments 

 to the Constitution, has been given full efifect to. The Com- 

 mittee's report has been duly weighed by your Council, and 

 the amend:ments wbich will be submitted to you are the result 

 of Council's most careful consideration. 



8. Lectures. — The South African Lectures have been 

 intennitted for the present year. Your Council trusts that they 

 will be resumed in 191 2. 



9. Grants for Research. — Your Council has not yet been 

 enabled to consider any applications for iresearch. In this 

 connection it may be mentioned that at the Cape Town Session 

 of the Association a paper was submitted by Dr. A. W. Roberts 

 on " The Period of the Variable Star S Arae." This paper 

 has been printed in the Association's Journal. Dr. T- Stuart 

 Thomson, to whom this Association had made a grant of £20. 

 has laid before the Association a copy of a paper on " South 

 African Alcyonaria," which was printed in the Transactions of 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh as the first of a series of papers 

 which he intended submitting on the subject. 



10. Standing Committees. — There still exist Standing 

 Committees on Education, Anthropology and Forestry, but three 

 years have elapsed since last a report was made by any of them. 

 The subject of such committees has been specially dealt with 



