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4. That such Society may. if it has a strength of 50 nienil'ers. !)e 

 represented on the Council of the Association 1)y its President or such 



■ other Member as may be nominated for the purpose. 



5. That all members of affiliated Societies may join the Association 

 as ordinary Members, with full privileges, at a reduced Annual Sub- 

 scription of 15s. 



6. That afinliated Societies shall be asked to take into consideration 

 the admission of Members of the Association into their Societies at a 

 reduced subscription. 



7. That papers contributed to affiliated Societies may, on recom- 

 mendation of both their own Covmcil and that of the Association, be 

 printed in the Association's Toi'rkal of Science, after which the authors 

 shall be entitled to reprints on the usual terms. 



South African Fo.sstLS — Removal from Country. — Prof. 

 E. J. Goddard, after representing that a wholesale exportation of 

 fossil types to America and elsewhere was taking place, moved 

 the following resohition. which had been adopted by Section C". 

 The motion was seconded l)v Prof. Fantham, and carried nnani- 

 motisly : — 



That this .Association views with alarm tiie exportation of such 

 ' fossils and ethnological specimens as are types, or of such a kind as 

 should he retained in this country; and requests the Government to take 

 some steps towards regulating such exportation. 



Federal Council of Technical Societies. — On the re- 

 commendation of the President, it was resolved to instruct the 

 incoming Council to consider the (|uestion of initiating a Federal 

 Council of Technical Societies 



AIemorial to Sir David Gill. — The President explained 

 that a proposal to take steps to provide some memorial to Sir 

 David Gill, in view of his eminence as an astronoiner, his long 

 residence in South Africa, and his close connection with the 

 Association — of which he was the first President — had been 

 made by the Members of Council for the Witwatersrand centre 

 in 1916; but the Council had suggested that the time was 

 inopportune. He thought, hovve\er, that the matter should 

 not be longer deferred, and proposed that it be a recommenda- 

 tion to the incoming Council to move in the matter. It was re- 

 solved to adopt the President's proposal. 



Fiftieth ANNIVERSAR^' of the Discover^' of Diamonds. — 

 The President having drawn attention to the fact that the j^resent 

 year was the fiftieth since the first discovery of diamonds in 

 South Africa, Mr. A. H. Reid gave a resume of the main facts 

 relatin.o- to the discovery of diainonds and the subsequent vast 

 developments of diamond-mining, and shewed how enormously 

 the diamond industry had benefitted South Africa and had led 

 to the development of its railways and its general prosperity ; and 

 he moved that the Association in Session should convey its 

 congratulations to the Mayor of Kiml)erle\' on the fiftieth anni- 

 versary of so auspicious an event. The motion was carried 

 unanimously. 



Loval Address to His MAJEST^■ the Kinc;.-- ^-On the mo- 

 tion of the President, it was resolved unanimously that the Gov- 

 ernor-General be respectfully requested to transmit the follow- 

 ing message to His ^Majesty the King :^ 



