REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOUTH 

 AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



During the Year ending 31st July, 1890. 



1. Since the last Annual General Meeting seven Ordinary and two- 

 Special Meetings have been held. The average attendance of 

 Members has been fourteen, and of visitors six, making an average 

 total of twenty. 



2. At the Ordinary Meetings six papers have been read on the 

 subjects Botany, Geography, Geology and Meteorology. Notes and 

 communications on a variety of subjects have also been brought before 

 the Society ; brief accounts of these will be found in the Notes of 

 Proceedings. 



3. A large number of presents of books has been received during the 

 past year. A list of these will be published in the Proceedings of the 

 Society. 



4. During the year eighteen ordinary Members have been elected, 

 and seven have resigned ; the Society has lost one Member by death, 

 and the names of seven Members have been removed from the list for 

 non-payment of subscriptions. The total number of ordinary Members 

 is seventy-nine. 



5. At a Meeting of the Council held on October 3rd, 1N89, it was 

 resolved that the papers read before the Society should be printed as 

 soon as possible after they are read, that a sufficient number of extra 

 copies be printed to be circulated amongst Members at once, and that a 

 volume be published annually as soon as possible after the Annual 

 Meeting, including the papers read during the past year, minutes of 

 proceedings, President's address, &c. Two papers have been circu- 

 lated in this way, a third is in the Press, and a fourth will follow as 

 soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. Some of the papers 

 read in the conclusion of 1887 and during 1888 still remain im- 

 printed, their publication having been unavoidably delayed, but it is 

 expected that they will soon appear. 



DAVID GILL, 



General Secretary. 

 July 30, 1890. 



