PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. XVIII. 



Annual General Meeting. 



August 8, 1906. 



The Annual Meeting resolved into an Ordinary Meeting. 



Miss A. V. DuTHiE of Stellenbosch was elected an Ordinary 

 Member of the Society. 



Mr. C. W. Howard, of Pretoria, was nominated an Ordinary 

 Member by M. Wilman and L. Peringuey. 



The President gave notice that at a Special Meeting to be 

 held for the pm^pose, a proposal will be made to alter the Eules of 

 the Society when the latter receives its Charter. 



The following Circular was sent to the members : — 



Cape Town, August 27, 1906. 



Sir, — At the Annual General Meeting of the Society held in 

 September, 1903, the draft of a proposed Eoyal Charter for the 

 incorporation of the Society as the '* Eoyal Society of South Africa " 

 was approved, and the Council was instructed to apply to the Privy 

 Council, in order to obtain the same. 



After the delay inherent to such applications, the Privy Council, 

 in announcing this for the general information of all whom it might 

 concern, called for any objections in accordance with usage. 

 Eepresentatives of several Societies in the Transvaal presented 

 then to the Privy Council certain objections to the granting of this 

 petition, the progress of which was impeded thereby. 



After a long correspondence and several meetings with the officials of 

 the Societies referred to, it was finally agreed that the three Fellows 

 of the Eoyal Society of London, then resident in South Africa 



