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Variable Star Observing and Kesults from Observations 

 MADE AT Lovedale, South Africa (with diagrams). By 

 A. W. Roberts . .24 



Van Wyk's Vley. By Garwood Alston .... 35 



Computation of Orbit of the Comes of Sirius. By A. W. 



Roberts 40 



Note on a Supposed New Icerya. By L. Peringuey . 50 



Catalogue of Variable Stars South of — 30^ Declination. 



By A. W. Roberts 52 



On the Repetition of Angles. By H. G. Fourcade . 63 



Preliminary Result for Longitude of Bloemfontein, from 



an Occultation. By W. H. Finlay, M.A. ... 77 



Variation of L. 6887 {B. ArcE). By A. W. Roberts . . 79 



Note on Locusts as Propagators of Foot and Mouth 



Disease. By Kannemeyer ...... 84 



Some Scientific Results of an Excursion to the Hex 



River Mountains By R. Marloth, Ph.D., M.A. . . 86 



Central Path of Solar Eclipses visible in South Africa 

 AS Total or Annular Eclipses during the Twentieth 

 Century. By A. W. Roberts 93 



On Some Human Skulls in the Collection of the Albany 



Museum. By S. Schonland ...... 120 



The Origin of the Nitrates in Griqualand West. By 



R. Marloth, Pli.D., M.A 123 



