1891. ] President’s Address. XV 
of these notes were papers in themselves, most noticeable among them 
shave been Mr. T. Stewart’s note on an example of Denudation and 
Weathering, Mr. R. Trimen’s remarks on the Death’s Head Moth, 
Mr. Wilson Moore’s notes on the Geology and Mineralogy of the 
Transvaal, Professor McOwan’s interesting and exhaustive account 
of some causes why orange-trees died and, perhaps, my own notes 
on Migratory Locusts at the Cape. 
The number of members which in July 1889 amounted to seventy- 
-six had dwindled to sixty-nine in July 1891. This is of course to 
be regretted. Of the first number eighteen resigned, eight were struck 
off for non-payment of subscriptions and one died, while twenty new 
members have been elected during that period. 
It is with sincere regret that I state that I have not been able, 
owing to his absence, to communicate with and obtain from our 
colleague Mr. Stewart, an obituary notice of the late Mr. Gamble, 
-one of the former Presidents of our Society. 
Many of us.will surely remember how courteous, obliging, always 
ready in his quiet unassuming manner to help any new-comer in 
the demesne of science, was the late Mr. Gamble. Ever anxious to 
promote and help investigations of a true scientific character, dis- 
_dainful of attacks made against his scientific qualifications—“ was 
he not an expert,” he left us to assume an office of larger responsi- 
bility in a country where at all events merit is sufficiently appreciated 
_as to shelter a man’s reputation against these petty venomous attacks 
which seem, here, alas, to be the order of the day. 
Our financial situation is a good one. Not too prosperous, perhaps, 
-but still a sound one, as you may have gathered from the Report of 
-our Treasurer. You must be made aware that your Council have 
decided that the subscription of members residing at more than thirty 
miles from Cape Town was to be reduced to one pound sterling per 
annum, as they have but seldom the opportunity of attending our 
‘monthly meetings. . , 
I trust that it will not be thought quite out of place if, in summa- 
rising the work done by the members of our Society during the last 
two years, | express my candid opinion that more should have been 
achieved. 
Unlike my predecessors, I shall not make mention of what could 
‘be done here in the scientific demesne; we are, all of us, but too 
much aware of it. 
Let me remind you however that nothing new—I mean absolutely 
