XXVllI 



REPORT OF THE COUXXTL FOR THE YEAR ENDED 



30TH June, 191 7. 



1. Obitltakv : Your Council desires to place on record its 

 sense of the great loss which this Association and the entire 

 Union has stistained in the ttntimelv decease of Prof. H. H. W. 

 Pearson. M.A.. Sc.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.S.Af., a former Member 

 of Council and Past-President of Section C. Your Council also 

 regrets the death of Mr. M. White, M.A.. on active service in 

 German East Africa, and <,)f Sir William Thorne. Kt., Senator 

 the Hon. Sir Marshall Campbell, and Messrs. J. ^^^ Quinn. ).P., 

 M.L.A., A. W. Wilson, and W. J. Davenport.' 



2. Me.mberstiip : Th6 war conditions, on which comments 

 were made in the last two Annual Reports, are unfortunately 

 still maintained, but there has. nevertheless, been a gratifying 

 increase in the membership of the Association, which now ntim- 

 bers 128 more than a year ago. During the intervening twelve 

 months no less than 181 new members have been enrolled. On 

 the other hand the seven whose names have jt^st been men- 

 tioned have died, and 46 have either resigned or were removed 

 from the Members' Roll becatise of departure and unknown ad- 

 dress, or because their stibscri])tions have remained outstanding 

 for a number of years. In the list published on July ist, only 

 those new members' names appear who have already paid their 

 first year's stibscription. 



The following is a comparative table, showing the number 

 of .Members on the roll on the two dates: — 



Ca])e Province 



Transvaal 



Orange Free State 



Natal 



Rhotlesia 



Basutoland 



Mozambique ... '. 



Swaziland 



South-W^est Africa Protectorate 



Abroad 



Unknown 



584 71-' 



At present the number of Life Members is Si ; two have 

 died during the year, and 1 1 new Life Members have been added. 



3. Report of the Pretoria Meeting, 1915: The twelfth 

 Annual Volume of the Transactions of the Association, compris- 

 ing the proceeding's at the Pretoria Session in 1915, has been com- 

 pleted in thirteen issues. The volume has now been bound in 

 uniformitv with those which preceded it. and consists in all of 



