XXX1\- SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL. 



visit to South Africa in 1905. and this is the ninth award. On 

 the recommendation of the South Africa Medal Committee, the 

 Council has made the award this year to Mr. Sim. 



" Mr. Sim came out to South Africa in iS8y; he was ap- 

 pointed Superintendent of Plantations. Eastern Conservancy, 

 Cape Colony, in 1895; District Forest ( )hicer. Kingwilliamstown, 

 in 1898; and Conservator of Forests, Natal, in 1902. His oppor- 

 tunities for research were seriously curtailed when the Natal 

 Forest Department was retrenched in 1907. In 1908 he was 

 Forestal Adviser to the Portuguese Government, Mozambique 

 Province. 



" Air. Sim's work on 'Forests and Forest Flora of the Colony 

 of the Cape of Ciood Hope ' is the standard work on the subject. 

 The expenses of publication of this work were defrayed by the 

 Governments of Cape Colony, Transvaal, Orange River Colony, 

 and Rhodesia. Another work. " The Forest Flora and Forest 

 Resources of Portuguese East Africa." was prej^ared and pub- 

 lished at the expense of the Portuguese Government. 



'■ In these works all the plates, it may be added, were draw n 

 by Mr. Sim himself. He is now preparing a monogra])h of th.e 

 Soutli African Mosses and Liverworts, groups on which he ha ; 

 been working for some years. These groups have received little 

 attention so far from South. African botani'-ts, and his work wil! 

 be a valuable addition to botanical liteiature, and es])ccially to 

 that of South Africa. 



" The greatness of Mr. Sim's achievement is enhanced b}- the 

 fact that much of his work has been done under difficulties which 

 would have utterly discouraged most men ; in the accumulation 

 of niaterial for his v/ork he has displayed zeal far beyond the 

 ordinjiry. It is in recognition of this most valuable research work 

 and in good hope of further research work to come that I now 

 on behalf of the South African Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, hand the medal for 1916 and accompanying grant to 

 Mr. Thomas Robertson Sim." 



Mr. !^im. in thanking the President and the .Vssociation for 

 the award, referred to the unique o])i)ortunities that had come 

 to him in that he had served under the (lOvernments of five 

 se]iarate countries, namel}-. the British Imperial (iovernment. 

 while at the Kcw Botanical Gardens; the Cape Government, in 

 its Forest Department ; the Natal Government, while in charge 

 of the Natal Forest Department ; the Portuguese Government of 

 the Province of Mozambique, as Forestal Adviser and explorer 

 in the regions north of the Zambesi; and the Government of the 

 Union of Sotith \frica. 



I 'ri;\ioi-> ki-'. iri!:.\TS. 



1908. GraJiaiiisfoivii. — Arnold Theiler. C.M.(j.. M.D.. Bacterio- 



logist to the Transvaal Government. I'retoria. 



1909. Hlocinfonlcin. — Harry Bolus. D.Sc. F.L.S.. of Sherwood. 



Kenilworth. Cape Division. 



