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Lyon, Esq., by Eev. Dr. Flint and Dr. G. S. Corstorphine ; F. P. 

 Mennell, Esq., Bulawayo, by Messrs. E. H. L. Schwarz and G. S. 

 CoRSTORrHiNE ; H. Clement Notcljtt, Esq., Kinibeiiey, by Messrs. 

 G. S. Corstorphine and J. G. Lawn ; Kurt Dinter, Esq., Wind- 

 hoek, by Messrs. J. C. Watermeyer and G. S. Corstorphine ; 

 Hon. G. D. Smith, Cape Town, by Drs. G. S. Corstorphine and 

 J. D, F. Gilchrist. 



The following gentlemen were elected ordinary members of the 

 Society : E. F. Kilpin, Esq., C.M.G.; James M. P. Muirhead, Esq.; 

 Eev. J. A. O'Neil; B. W. Eitso, Esq. 



The Secretary read letters, forwarded by the President, from the 

 Imperial German Consul-General, and Professor Erich van Dry- 

 GALSKi, thanking the Society for its hospitality to the latter and his 

 staff on board the Gauss. 



The Secretary intimated that the Council of the Society had 

 hired a room in the building in which the meeting was being held 

 for safe keeping of the library. Dr. J. C. Beattie had given his 

 services as librarian, and it was hoped that in a short time the room 

 would be ready for the use of members. It was suggested by the 

 Chairman that the question of ensuring the Library should be 

 referred to the Council. 



The Secretary intimated that during the year the Society would 

 celebrate its semi-jubilee. The question as to what special form the 

 celebration should assume was left to the Council. 



The Secretary read the following notice of motion by Mr. T. 

 Stewart for consideration at the next meeting : '' That a Committee 

 be appointed to connect and revise the Eules of the Society." 



The report of the Committee on the metric system and decimal 

 coinage was presented as follows : — 



Eeport of the Committee on Decimal Coinage and the 



Metric System. 



At the ordinary meeting of the Society held on October 2, 1901, 

 the President (Sir David Gill), Dr. J. C. Beattie, Dr. Lawrence 

 Crawford, Mr. D. E. Hutchins, Mr. E. T. Littlewood, Dr. T. 

 MuiR, Professor Thomson, and the Secretary of the Society 

 were appointed as a Committee, with power to add to their 

 number " to prepare a report on the advisability of introducing 

 a decimal coinage and the metric system of weights and 

 measures into South Africa, or of legalising these throughout the 

 region." 



