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Transactions of the Boyal Society of South Africa. 
" Magnetic Maps of the Western and Northern Parts of the Union of 
South Africa and of Great Namaqualand for the Epoch July 1, 1908," by 
J. C. Beattie. 
" Note on Clebsch's Theorem," by T. Muir. 
" On the Significance of the Position of the Genital Apertures in 
Hinidinea," by E. J. Goddaed. 
" On the Phreodrilid from Sneeuw Kop, Wellington, South Africa," by 
E. J. GODDARD. 
" Note on Spodumene from Namaqualand," by G. C. Scully and 
A. E. E. Walker. 
"On the Interpretation of the Electrocardiogram," by W. A. 
Jolly. 
" A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Anatomy of the Chamae- 
leon," by Paul A. Methuen and John Hewitt. 
"Note on the Pollination of Encephalartos Alteiisteinii," by E. 
Marloth. 
" A New Mimicry Plant," by E. Marloth. 
" On an Experimental Modification of Van der Waals's Equation," by 
John P. Dalton. 
"Barometric Variability at Kimberley and Elsewhere," by J. E. 
Sutton. 
In addition the President gave an address entitled, "The Antiquity 
of Man." 
The Society has awarded, on the recommendation of the General 
Committee, for Grants-in-Aid of Eesearch, the following grants : — £100 to 
J. C. Beattie for the prosecution of magnetic work in the Cape Province 
and in the Free State ; £100 to E. Goetz for the prosecution of magnetic 
work in Ehodesia ; £50 to E. J. Goddard for a study of the fresh-water 
Annulata and Crustacea of the mountains of South Africa ; £75 to Miss 
W. Tucker for ethnological inquiries among the Topnaar tribe of Hotten- 
tots ; £45 to G. Arnold for the investigation of insert fauna of Southern 
Ehodesia. 
During the past year further progress has been made with the 
cataloguing of the Society's library. 
The publications of the undermentioned Societies have been examined 
and catalogued, and letters written to the Societies asking for their 
assistance in filling up blanks. 
Eoyal Scottish Geographical Society. 
Scottish Microscopical Society. 
Eoyal Physical Society, Edinburgh. 
Eoyal Philosophical Society, Glasgow. 
Manchester Geographical Society. 
