X.WIII RKI'OKT OF COUNCIL. 



Miilliciiiafics : l'^-;ink l-'ornian, ( l\-ninasiuni J^ii;"h School. 



North l\-uirl. 

 Physics : Franl< I'onuan. (ivnina^iuiii IJis^^h School. Xorth 



I'aarl. 

 i hciiiistry : Reginald i'crcy (iain. South .\frican College 



High School. Capetown. 

 I'liysical Sciou'c: Johannes .Stephanns Marais. }')0\s' High 



School, Upper Paarl. 

 Botany: Judith Raubenheinier. ( )ranje Girls" School. I>ioem- 



fontein. 



S. Ivii.sii.ARcii Gkaxts: ^'our Council has re-nominated Rev. 

 Dr. \\ . Flint, Dr. j. Lunt, Dr. R. Marloth, and Mr. A. H. Reid 

 to represent the Association on the 1916 General Committee for 

 Research Grants administered by the Council of the Royal 

 Society of South Africa. 



9. Presentation i'A' Sir Tiioinias ]Ml'IR : In addition to the 

 complete set of the \olumes of Xatiirc presented b}' Sir Thomas 

 Aiuir, Past President of the .:\ssociation, to which reference was 

 made in the last Annual Report, Sir Thomas Muir has since 

 presented this Association with a series of the British Associa- 

 tion's Reports from 1841 to 1889. This gift places the Associa- 

 tion in possession of a set of those re^jorts con)])lete from 1841 to 

 the present date. 



10. Munitions Congress: On the initiative of the Minister 

 of Defence, a Congress was held in Johannesburg on the 3rd 

 November, 191 5, in order to consider what steps could be taken 

 in South Africa w itli a \-iew to organising the manufacture in 

 .South Africa of articles of local consum])tion previotisly pro- 

 duced in the worksho]js of the United Kingdom, so as to relieve 

 those workshops as much as possible of extraneous requirements, 

 and thus enable them to devote their attention more exclusively 

 to the production of war materials. Your Council was requested 

 to send delegates to this Congress, and Dr. C. F. juritz and Prof. 

 ]. i )rr were acc(jrdingly delegated to attend. It is understood 

 that the Congress appointed a Central Executive Committee with 

 local L'ommittees in the various centres throughout the L'nion. 



11. Cd.xnrcT oi" .Si.:i-Ti(i\Ai. .M I':i-:ti.\( s : \'our Council has 

 considered \arious suggestions which liave b^'cn made for im- 

 l)roving the procedure at ."^ectional Meetings, and resolved, as an 

 experiment for one year, to adopt the ])ro])osal to obtain i)rior to 

 the proem .'^^ession a notification fi-oni .Memi>ers witli regard to 

 tlie ])aper> wliich the\' ]>ai fcnlarh' wish to hear read. 



I _'. .M i:.\iia-;Ks o.x Aci"i\i-: .S|-.!<\-u"r. : \'onr Council has re- 

 sol\-ed tliai tlie names of M(.-ml)crs on .\cti\e ."-^erxice sliall not be 

 remo\-ed from the roll ol the .Vs'^ociation 1)\ reason of non- 

 ] ; AUKiU of sul)scri])tions resulting from absence from South 

 Africa : and that tlie (|uestion oi" their relation to the .Association 

 sliall lie lui'tlier con>idere(l at the close ol the war. 



13. Til,; .Xi.w Coi Ncii.: ( )n the ])asis ot' Mem])ership pro- 

 \-ide(l 1)\- .Section \'! ( (/ / of the Constitution, the number of 

 .Member^ of Council assigned to the representation of the several 

 districts for the ensuing twehe months should be distributed as 

 tollows : — 



