4 I'UOCKKDINGS OF THE 



The President put a Motion expressing the sense of loss expe- 

 rienced by the ^Society in the recent death of Mary Emily Bessik 

 Smith, B.Sc, Clerk to the Society since March 1017, and of 

 sympathy with Mrs. Smith in her bereuvement. 



This was unanimously adojjted, tlie Fellows rising in tlieir 

 places. 



Sir Nicolas Termoloff, K.C.B., K.C.Y.O., was admitted a 

 Fellow. 



Miss Kathleen INlaisey Curtis, M.A., M.Sc, was proposed as a 

 Fellow. 



Mr. Charles Cnthbert Eley, J.P., M.A. (Oxon.), Mr. Gordon 

 Wallace Gibson, Miss Gladys Boyd Hurry, Mr. John Hutchinson, 

 Mr. Francis Edward Kobotliam, Mr. Arthur Bufus Sanderson, 

 Dr. John McLean Thorn j)son, iM.A., Mr. vVilliaiu Arthur Wilkin- 

 son, F.Z.S., and Mi-. William Edgar Wright, Lt.R.A.F., proposed 

 as Fellows on the 7th November last, were severally elected. 



The first paper was by Prof. W. A. Haswell, F.E.S., F.L.S., 

 on the E.\oa;onese, which was summarized on behalf of the Author 

 by Mr. E. S. Goodrich, F.R.S., Sec.L.S. 



Mr. C. D. Soar, F.L.S., exhibited a large series of coloured 

 drawings of British Mites, and showed lantern-slides in elucidation. 



Mr. E. S. Goodrich and Mr. T. A. Dymes contributed some 

 additional remarks. 



The General Secretary showed a framed engraving of Carl von 

 Linne, engraved by Chapman and published in 1812: of this we 

 had no copv, the gift being an accession to the Society's collection 

 of Linneau portraits. It was presented by the sons of our recently 

 deceased Fellow, Dr. John William Sinclair Meiklejohn. 



He also exhibited the letters from Governor Tulbagh, translated 

 and published in the latest ])art of the Society's ' Proceeding?,' and 

 gave further details which had come to his knowledge since the 

 introductory remarks had been written. He regretted that so 

 little was kriowu of this excellent administrator of the Dutch 

 Colony of the Cape, but pointed out that Carl Pehr Thunberg, 

 the celebrated Swedish botanist antl traveller, had, in his published 

 travels, thrown some light u])on Tulbagh's record. Thus he 

 mentions that the future Governor came to the Cape as a private 

 soldier of the colonial garrison, but gradually rose by simple 

 merit to the highest position in the Colony, dying of "gout and 

 old age" in 1771, after twenty years of service as Governor. 

 During this term he had to contend with two epidemics of small- 

 pox, introduced from vessels touching at Cape Town, but he was 

 able to send out exploring expeditioiis to the north, and to the 

 east as far as Natal. 



