Minutes of Proceedings. xliii 



Annual General Meeting. 

 Wednesday, September 6, 1897. 

 Mr. T. Mum, LL.D., M.A., F.K.S.E., President, in the Chair. 



The Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer were read and 

 adopted. 



The Meeting proceeded to the election of a President and Council 

 for the coming year, with the following results : 



T. Stewart, F.G.S., M.I.C.E., President. 



[■Council. 



H. Bolus, F.L.S. 



G. S. Corstorphine, B.Sc, Ph.D. 



W. H. Finlay, M.A., F.R.A.S. 



D. Gill, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.E.A.S. 



B. Marloth, M.A., Ph.D. 



T. Muni, LL.D., M.A., F.R.S.E. 



L. Peringuey, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



W. L. Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S. 



The President delivered the annual address, at the conclusion of 

 which a cordial vote of thanks was awarded to him not only for his 

 paper but for his indefatigable labours whilst he had been President 

 of the Society. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1897. 



By the President, T. Muir, LL.D., M.A., F.E.S.E. 



My first duty, as retiring president, is to render some account to 

 you of the progress of the Society's affairs during the two years 

 which have just ended, and thereby to try to encourage the 

 working members to increased interest and effort, to stir up a little 

 enthusiasm among those who are less active but none the less 

 friendly, and, if possible, to enlist the practical sympathy of any 

 well-wishers of science who may still remain outside the fold. As 

 regards the membership, there is nothing but good to report. At a 

 recent meeting of Council the secretary intimated that two years 

 ago the number of members on the roll was fifty-nine, and that at 

 the close of our proceedings to-night, if all the new candidates should 

 find favour in our eyes, the number would be 109. This amounts, 



