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coast route to England, while the other went home 

 by Cape Town and the west coast. 



In commemoration of the visit, a fund was raised 

 among the members who made the journey, for the 

 provision and endowment of a medal and scholarship 

 or studentship for South African students. To the 

 fund thus raised, amounting to 859, was added the 

 balance (about 800) of the special fund referred to 

 above. The medal was struck in bronze from a 

 design by Mr. Frank Bowcher, and the symbolical 

 figure on the reverse side of it has since served the 

 Association as a badge, and appears on the title-page 

 of this volume. The fund was placed in the hands 

 of trustees (now the Superintendent-General of 

 Education for the Cape Province, the Controller and 

 Auditor- General for the Union of South Africa, and the 

 Registrar of the University of South Africa), and the 

 award in those of the South African Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. 



Following resolutions forwarded from the South 

 African meeting the Council took action dealing 

 with the completion of the geodetic arc from the 

 south to the north of Africa, the establishment of a 

 topographical survey, and the prosecution of a mag- 

 netic survey of South Africa ; also upon resolutions 

 dealing with the collection of information concerning 

 natives whose habits of life had not been affected by 

 the advance of civilisation, with the nomenclature of 

 groups of natives, and with instruction in com- 

 parative ethnology for officers administering native 

 affairs. A grant of 300 from the South African Fund 

 was made toward the completion of the connexion 

 between the Rhodesian and Transvaal triangula- 

 tions along 30 E. longitude. The co-operation of 



