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The Advisory Committee for the Botanical Survey of the 

 Union, consists of the following persons, and the appointment 

 was announced in the Union of South Africa Government Gazette 



of October 5th, 1918 : 



Dr. I. B. Pole-Evans, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., Chief, Division of 



Plant Pathology and Botany, who will also act as Director of the 

 Survey. 



Prof. J. W. Bews, M.A., D.Sc, Natal University College. 

 Mrs. L. Bolus, B.A., South African College, Capetown. 

 Prof. R. Marloth, M.A., Ph.D., Capetown. 

 Prof. G. Potts, M.Sc, Ph.D., Grey University College, 



Bloemfontein. 



Prof. S. Schonland, M.A., Ph.D., F.L.S., Rhodes University 

 College, Grahamstown. 



C. E. Legat, Esq., B.Sc., Chief Conservator of Forests. 



E. It. Montgomery, Esq., M.R.C.V.8., Director of Veterinary 



Research. 



^ At a meeting of botanists of the Department, held at the 



Botanical Laboratories, Pretoria, on February 18th, 1918, it 

 was stated that the aims and scope of the Survey are: — 



1. To continue and extend the Survey and systematic work 

 already carried out by the Division of Botany on the Vegetation 

 of the country. 



2. To continue and extend the survey work already carried 

 out by the Division of Veterinary Research on the relation of 

 such vegetation to the unsolved stock diseases of South Africa. 



3. To continue and extend the collections of the plant parasites 

 of the indigenous vegetation already made by the Division of 

 Botany, and proceed with its examination as a possible reservoir 



of disensr< of cultivated plants and of domesticated animals, and 



• in particular map their distribution. 



4. To continue and extend the work already accomplished by 

 the Forest Department in further ascertaining the composition 

 of the indigenous forests, the value of their products and their 

 industrial possibilities. 



5. To study the vegetation from an industrial point of view. 



6. To study the vegetation in its relation to agricultural and 

 pastoral developments. 



7. To study the plant succession under natural and artificial 



conditions. 



8. To study the vegetation of the veld in connection with its 

 feeding value and carrying capacity and to distinguish botanically 

 between "sour" and "sweet" velds, good and bad pastures 



9. To study the disturbing influence of burning, manuring, 

 cultivation, drainage, irrigation, overstocking, insect and plant 

 pests on the natural vegetation. 



10. To sttidy plant distribution according to geological, oro- 

 graphical and climatological conditions and the conditions which 

 influence the different plant formations. 



11. To extend their knowledge of the medicinal and poisonous 



plants of the country. 



