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The President concurred in the explanation of the origin of the 

 conversion of the cold into a hot wind given by the author, and 

 proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Stewart for his interesting paper, 

 which was unanimously agreed to. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 

 October 2, 1901. 

 Sir David Gill, President, in the Chan\ 



The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a letter from Lord Milner's Private Secre- 

 tary expressing His Excellency's thanks for the congratulations of 

 the Society. 



Mr. J. G. Hallack, Cape Town, and Dr. Gerard Carre were 

 elected ordinary members of the Society. 



Mr. Herbert Baker reported that he and Mr. Peringuey had 

 looked at the house on which the memorial to L'Abbe de la Caille 

 was to be erected, and that he had made a sketch of the proposed 

 tablet which, he recommended, should be cast in bronze. 



Mr. Baker, with the sanction of the President and members 

 present, introduced the question as to the steps the Society should 

 take concerning the Town Council's proposal not to build the Town 

 House portico which had recently been pulled down. Mr. Baker 

 said : "I trust you will agree with me that the protection of our few 

 ancient buildings is a duty which should be undertaken by this 

 Society, and I may remind you that it has already accepted the 

 principle by discussing other archaeological subjects, such as the 

 Portuguese crosses and the Post-office stones. Of old buildings in 

 the peninsula which are not private property we have only four — 

 the Castle, Constantia, Tokai, and the Town House — and as the 

 Castle has already been very much altered, we may say that the 

 Town House was (I cannot say is) the only complete building in 

 Cape Town, and the protection of it therefore seems to be all the 

 more important. The chief arguments on the other side are as 

 follows : (1) That the building is not of any great antiquity ; (2) that 

 it is built only of plaster ; (3) that it is not very beautiful. As to its 

 age, it is true that it was only built in the Governorship of van 



