Minutes of Proceedings. xi 



B.S.Ph.D., Bloemfontein, by J. Lyle and L Peringuey; J. S. 

 Backhouse, B.A., Cape Town, by J. Hammond Tooke and J. D. F. 

 Gilchrist ; F. Pickering, Cape Town, by M. Wilson and L. 

 Peringuey; Dr. E. C. Long, Maseru, by W. L. Sclater and 

 L. Peringuey. 



Messrs. F. M. Morris, F. J. Lawrence, J. Denham, J. Burtt- 

 Davy, P. A. Sheppard, A. Bodong, G. W. Eobertson were 

 elected ordinary members of the Society. 



A notice of the late Dr. E. W. Cohen, honorary member of the 

 Society, was read by Mr. E. H. L. Schwarz. 



Professor Dr. Emil Wilhelm Cohen was born in Aakjaer, Jutland, 

 in 1842. He came out to the Cape in 1872 at the request of 

 Messrs. D. Lippert, of Hamburg, to make a thorough examination 

 of the diamond-fields ; the investigation was later undertaken of the 

 gold-fields of Marabastad and Lydenburg. During his stay of four 

 months in South Africa he sent home several letters to Professor 

 Leonhard, which were published in what is now known as the 

 Neues Jahrbuch, in one of which there is the first suggestion of 

 the volcanic origin of the Kimberley pipes, and when he returned 

 he published, in the same Journal, several very important papers 

 on the general geology of South Africa, under the title " Geognostisch 

 petrographische Skizzen aus Sud-Afrika." The diamond-fields were 

 described in the Funfte Jahresbericht des Vereins fur Erdkunde zu 

 Metz. As a mineralogist he investigated the diamondiferous blue, 

 the Band banket, the Drakensberg lavas, and many other typical 

 South African rocks, and published the first descriptions of them, 

 while later, when he took up meteorites as a speciality, all the 

 known South African falls were examined by him. His papers, 

 throughout, were characterised by a wish that he should see more 

 of the country which supplied him with such rich materials for 

 research, and he was, therefore, overjoyed to receive an invitation 

 to visit the Cape in connection with the British Association, and 

 geologists in South Africa were hoping to welcome the protagonist 

 of many of the great controversies which still occupy their thoughts. 

 At the time of his death he was engaged in the description of the 

 St. Mark's Meteorite, the property of the South African Museum, 

 which was, however, sufficiently advanced to allow of its completion 

 by his friend Dr. W. Deecke. 



Dr. E. Marloth exhibited specimens of an undescribed tree 

 from the Eoggeveld, and said : This plant is remarkable for 

 several reasons : 



1. Because it is a tree, for the Eoggeveld is known as an 

 absolutely treeless country, the vegetation consisting of low 



