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improved, and he was able to return to our midst. As I 

 thought our President would be back by October, I put off 

 the meeting with the consent of several members of the 

 Council, but as so often happens with something which has 

 been postponed once, it was postponed on two successive 

 occasions and then abandoned altogether, and we now have 

 a report for two years instead of one. 



Memhersldp. — Six Mem1)ers have resigned during these 

 two years, several of which have not paid their subscriptions 

 for three years and one not for five years. Owing to the 

 bad state of the Members as regards their subscriptions, a 

 circular appealing for more active support M'ns sent out, and 

 I am glad to say that many of the Members have responded 

 in the right spirit. The total membership at date is 91 

 ordinary and 9 honorary. 



Four new Members seek election into our ranks. 



I would appeal to our Members to become a little more 

 active in trying to enlist new Members, especially amongst 

 the school teachers, for which an Associate Membership rate 

 of subscription (IO5. 6f?.) was specially formed in 1911, but 

 so far no one has taken advantage of this. 



Migration. — This has also slackened off during the last two 

 years, but with the issue of the coloured Wall pictures to 

 schools, of some of our commoner migrants, by the Education 

 Department of the Transvaal, we hope to enlist a good many 

 more observers in the near future, and I have prepared a 

 new circular accordingly. These pictures should have been 

 issued nearly a year ago, but were held back owing to the 

 delay in obtaining millboard from Europe. 



Journal. — During the past two years four numbers of this 

 were issued, containing fifteen papers on South African 

 Ornithology, besides other matter. Vol. VII. for 1911 

 contains 123 pp. letterpress and one photo plate, Vol. VIII. 

 for 1912 contains 147 pp. and one photo plate. 



I must really appeal to the Members for more support iu 



