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8. Keseakch Grant Committee: Your Council has ap- 

 pointed the Rev. Dr. FHnt. Dr. C. F: Juritz, Mr. A. H. Reid, and 

 Prof. A. Brown as its representatives on the 1917 Cieneral Com- 

 mittee ten- Research (irants administered by the Council of the 

 Royal .Society of South Africa : and a j^rant of £50 was awarded 

 by this Committee to Mr. J. S. van der Ij'nt^cn, B.A.. for research 

 in Radiology. 



9. Industrial Research Committee: ( )n the initiative of 

 the South African Institution of Engineers, a Central Committee 

 of Scientific and Technical Societies was constituted at Johan- 

 nesburg for the purpose of furthering Industrial Research. In 

 response to an invitation to nominate representatives on tliis 

 Committee, your Council resolved to delegate Mr. I. Burtt-Davy, 

 F.L.S., F.R.G.S., Mr. R. T. A. Innes. F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S., and 

 Prof. John Orr, B.Sc, M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., to rei>resent it. 

 The Department of Mines and Industries subse(]uently invited 

 this Central Committee to nominate members of a .Scientific and 

 Technical Committee which the C.overnment had decided to 

 establish for the purpose of advising it on scientific and technical 

 questions arising out of industrial development within tlie Unit)n. 

 Your Council sujjported the recommendation of the Central 

 Committee to the effect that Professors J. C. Beattie. John Orr, 

 R. B. Young, Dr. W. .\. Caldecott. and Messrs. Burtt-Davy. L. 

 Colquhoun and B. Price should b*; appointed as members of 

 the Government Committee. This recommendation wa> a(loi)ted 

 by the Government. 



10. Memorial to thi: L.ate Rev. H. Bektholi): In com- 

 memoration of the labours of the late Rev. H. Berthoud, of tlie 

 Swiss Mis.sion, in the Zoutpansberg District of the Transvaal 

 Province — which included the preparation of a valuable map of 

 that region — it was proposed to give Mr. Berthoud's name to 

 the mountain hitherto known at Madzibangombe's Hill. Your 

 Council decided to communicate with the Surveyor-General of 

 the Transvaal on the subject, and to express the hope that the 

 proposal would be favourably entertained. This was d(jne in 

 due course, and your Council was informed that the mountain 

 would henceforth be known as " Monbertou." 



11. Metric System, Decimal Coinage, and " Daylight 

 Saving.": At the Fourteenth Annual Meeting at Pietermaritz- 

 burg, resolutions dealing with these questions were passed at a 

 combined meeting of Sections, and. after confirmation by the 

 Council, were forwarded to the Government and other authori- 

 ties. In order to press forward these reforms, on the initiative 

 of the Council, a conference was held at Johannesburg on April 

 10, 1917, at which over 60 delegates were present, representing 

 34 Scientific and Technical Societies and Public Bodies in the 

 Union of South Africa and Rhodesia. The following resolutions 

 were passed : — 



I. That the metric system of weights and measures he legahsed at as 

 early a date as possihle. for permissive use until the end nf the war, and 

 that its use hecome compulsory and exclusive after such time as may he 

 found practicable. 



