XXXIV 



FIFTEENTH AWARD OF THE SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL AND 



GRANT. 



{Fund raised by Members of the British Association in Commemoration of 

 their visit to South Africa in 1905.) 



After the conclusion of the Presidential Address, in the large hall of 

 the Railway Headquarters, LourenQO Marques, on Monday, July 10, 1922, 

 the President, Dr. A. W. Rogers, F.R.S., presented the South Africa Medal, 

 together with a grant of £50, to Dr. Illtyd Buller Pole Evans, C.M.G., 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., Chief of the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, 

 and Director of the Botanical Survey, Union of South Africa. 



In making the presentation, the President said : — 



Illtyd Buller Pole Evans, after a distinguished student career at 

 the University College of South Wales, Cardiff, graduated B.Sc. in 1903. 

 He thence proceeded to Cambridge, specialising in the study of Plant 

 Pathology and Mycology under the late Professor Marshall Ward, and 

 taking his research degree in 1905. 



In July, 1905, he accepted an appointment in the Division of Botany 

 of the Transvaal Agricultural Department, and in 1912 the value of his 

 services was specially recognised by the creation of a Division of Plant 

 Pathology and Mycology, under his care. In 1913 the Divisions of Botany 

 and Plant Pathology were amalgamated with Dr. Pole Evans as Chief — 

 an arrangement which holds to this day. 



The year 1918 brought him an honour from his old University in the 

 degree of D.Sc, and an additional responsibility in the Directorship of the 

 Botanical Survey of South Africa. 



He had for many years taken a prominent part in associations devoted 

 to the advancement of his subject, being a Fellow of the Linnean Society 

 of London since 1907, Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, Presi- 

 dent of the Transvaal Biological Society in 1911, and Council member of 

 the South African Biological Society since its formation. In 1919 the Biological 

 Society honoured him in his private capacity by the award of the Scott 

 Memorial Medal for individual researches ; and in 1920 his public interest 

 in science was recognised by the South African Association for the 

 Advancement of Science in electing him President. 



The conferring of a C.M.G. by His Majesty, in the New Year 

 Honours List of 1921, is a still more public recognition of that reputation 

 which he has long enjoyed amongst his scientific confreres. 



Despite his manifold public and administrative responsibilities, his 

 published scientific work has suffered no pause in continuity. As editor 

 of " Bothalia," and of the " Flowering Plants of South Africa," as conjoint 

 author in collaboration with the growing staff of his Division, and as sole 

 author of individual contributions, his name remains prominent in the main 

 current of scientific literature. Most of his work naturally takes a prac- 

 tical economic form, but the pm'er aspects of his science are not thereby 

 overshadowed. A glance at the following list of papers will illustrate his 

 ceaseless scientific activity and the diversity of his range. 



Scientific Papers. 



1. " Infection Phenomena in Various Uredinece." Rept. British Assoc. 



for Advancement of Science, S. Africa, 1905, pp. 595-596. 



2. " Note on Fusicladium affecting Apples and Pears in Cape Colony." 



Trans. Agric. Journ. IV, 1906, pp. 827-829. 



3. " The Cereal Rusts." Ann. Rep. Trans. Dept. Agric. for 1906-7, V. 



1907, pp. 163-5. 



4. " Coffee Rusts " (Ilemileia vastatrix Berk and Br.). Ann. Rep. Trans.- 



Dept. Agric. 1906-7, V, pp. 165-6. 



