xvi REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1929-30. 



(g) On the subject of a resolution from Section H (Anthropology), 

 dealing with the protection of Australian aborigines, the Council are in 

 communication with appropriate authorities in Australia. 



{h) A resolution from Section H (Anthropology), dealing with the 

 preservation of ancient monuments and remains in South Africa, was 

 forwarded to the appropriate authorities there, through the High Com- 

 missioner, together with a memorandum kindly provided by the President 

 of the Section, Mr. H. Balfour. Information was received that the Union 

 Government intends to introduce legislation in this connection in the 

 near future. 



Zimbabwe Investigation : Publication and Loan Exhibition. 



IV. — The publication of the results of Miss Caton-Thompson's 

 investigation of archaeological sites at and near Zimbabwe, in Rhodesia 

 (Report 1929, pp. xvi, 368), which was the subject of a recommendation 

 from Section H (Anthropology), has been offered to the Clarendon 

 Press, Oxford. The book is to be in royal 8vo., fully illustrated, and 

 published at 15s., the Council pro\ading a subsidy of £100 from the 

 balance of the special fund remaining. 



V. — A Loan Exhibition of Antiqmties from Southern Rhodesia was 

 opened from April 7 to the earlier part of June by the kind permission of 

 the Trustees of the British Museum, in the Assyrian Basement of the 

 Museum. The Exhibition was under the patronage of H.E. the Governor- 

 General of the Union of South Africa and H.E. the Governor of Southern 

 Rhodesia ; and included objects generously lent from the South African 

 Museum at Cape Town, the Rhodesian Museum at Bulawayo, the Queen 

 Victoria Memorial Museum at Salisbury, and several private collections ; 

 as well as the principal objects found during Miss Caton-Thompson's 

 excavation, the air photographs taken by oflBcers of the Air Force of the 

 Union, and other photographs kindly lent. The Union Castle S.S. Co. 

 generously provided free transport for the exhibits. The expenses of the 

 exhibition were met out of the balance of the Association's special fund. 



British Association Medal for South Africa. 



VI. — The Council resolved that a capital sima of £200 be set aside 

 from the balance of the Association's special fund for the South African 

 Meeting, to provide from the income thereof a research medal and 

 premium, to be awarded to a member of the South African Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, the age of the recipient not to exceed 

 thirty years and the paper giving the results of the research to be read at 

 a meeting of the South African Association ; the medal to be called the 

 British Association Medal and to be awarded annually subject to the final 

 adjudication of the Council. 



The Council of the South African Association, in gratefully accepting 

 the above proposal, decided to add to the capital the sum of £275, and 

 referred the terms upon which the medal will be granted to a sub- 

 committee for consideration. " *> 



