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found everywhere enthusiasm for the visit ; and the list of tliose members of the 

 (loticral Committee who indicated in April last the possibility that they would visit 

 South Africa gave much satisfaction (and has since been published in the Press). 



The Secretary found cogent reasons for amending the proposed date of the meeting, 

 so that it may begin in Cape Town on July 22, 1929 (instead t)f Julj^ 29), and he took 

 the responsibility of fixing this (as he was asked to do) on behalf of the Association. 

 The Council is satisfied with his reasons for thus anticipating the decision of the 

 General Committee, and desires to endorse them. They are : 



(i) A general preference in South Africa for the earlier date, and, in particular, 

 the greater convenience of the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand 

 (Johannesburg), where most of the meetings will be held. 



(ii) Opportunity for co-operation with the International Geological Congress at 

 Pretoria, July 29- August 7. 



(iii) Opportunity for co-operation with a Government Departmental Agricultural 

 Conference, and a Pan-African Agricultural and Veterinary Congress, beginning on 

 August 2 in Pretoria, the latter being transferred from Rhodesia to that city in view 

 of the Association's visit. 



Expected steamer sailings from England are more convenient with the earlier date. 



The general outline of the Meeting is as follows : 



Cape Town, July 22-July 28-29. Inaugural meeting, July 22, at which it is 

 proposed that the president of the South African Association should address the 

 meeting first, and that the new president of the British Association should then be 

 installed, and reply. Sectional meetings, mornings only, July 23-26. Evening 

 discourse, public lectures, excursions, &c. 



Call at Kimberley, July 29-30. 



Johannesburg, July 30-31-August 4. Presidential Address, July 31. Sectional 

 Meetings, mornings only, July 31-August 3, and other arrangements as above. 

 Pketokia, sectional transactions, &c., as appropriate in connexion with the 

 co-operating congresses indicated above ; continuing to August 7. 



After the meetings, extended tours through the Union, to Victoria Falls, Rhodesia, 

 Lourengo Marques, &c., as to which members wUl be afforded opportunity to indicate 

 their preference. 



It is proposed that in consideration of a grant by the South African Association 

 to the British Association of a sum not exceeding £500 and reckoned at £1 per head 

 of the number of persons involved, the British Association should admit to membership 

 members of the South African Association in good standing down to June 1929, 

 entitling them to attend the meeting and receive the report if desired. From 300 to 

 400 members are expected under this category, and the arrangement resembles that 

 made in 1905. 



The report entered into many details of arrangements, wliich the 

 Council, through its committee mentioned above, has already taken in 

 hand. Particulars are expected to be available at the Glasgow Meeting. 

 It should be added that the Secretary, in making the journey, was the 

 guest of the South African Association ; and the Council, in gratefully 

 accepting the invitation to him, offered to meet the costs incurred if a 

 representative of the local executive should attend the Glasgow Meeting. 



The gratifying intimation has since been received that IVIr. James 

 Gray, of Johannesburg, will do so in that capacity. 



An offer has been received from the Rhodes Trustees, and has been 

 gratefully accepted by the Council, to make a grant of £200 toward any 

 further authoritative investigation at the ruins at Great Zimbabwe under- 

 taken in connexion with the South African Meeting. 



A generous invitation has been received from L' Association franyaise 

 pour I'Avancement des Sciences, and from the City of Le Havre, for 

 members unable to take part in the South African Meeting, to attend that 

 of the French association in Le Havre, as was done in 1914. 



