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Transactions of the Boyal Society of South Africa. 
" Note on an Abnormal Seedling of Widdringto7iia cupressoides and a 
brief account of the Vascular System of the Normal Seedling," by H. S. 
MOEEIS. 
" The Genesis of the Chemical Elements," by J. Moir. 
" Evaporation in a Current of Air," by J. E. Sutton. 
Notes on the Absorption of Water by Aerial Organs of Plants," by 
E. Maeloth. 
" Statement of Silayi with Eeference to His Life among the Bushmen," 
by W. E. Stanfoed. 
" On some Flowering Plants from the Neighbourhood of Port 
Elizabeth," by S. Schonland. 
" Borchard's Form of the Eliminant of Two Equations of the nth 
Degree," by T. Mum. 
" Eevised List of the Flora of Natal," by J. Medley Wood. 
" On the Eelationship of the South African Fossil Eeptiles to those of 
Other Parts of the World," by E. Beoom. 
On Nutmeg Poisoning," by M. Wilson. 
" Observations on some Specimens of South African Fossil Eeptiles 
preserved in the British Museum," by E. Beoom. 
" The Odyssey of our Bushman Boy," by Miss Cueele. 
" Notes on Zoological and Botanical Collections from the Group of 
Islands of Tristan d'Acunha," by L. Peeinguey and E. T. Phillips. 
Absorption of Light by the Atmosphere," by A. W. Eobeets. 
"The Ovule of the Bruniacece," by W. T. Saxton. 
" Some New South African Succulents (pt. 3)," by E. Maeloth. 
" Gravity on the South African Tableland," by E. A. Lehfeld. 
On Chrysochloris namaquejisis," by E. Beoom. 
Vol I., containing 515 pages and 27 plates, has been issued during the 
1909 and 1910 session. 
Nine papers read at the last two meetings are already in proof-sheets 
and will form Part I. of Vol. II. 
In term of the resolution adopted at the Anniversary Meeting, the 
Council have examined the documents in possession of the Society and 
have prepared the following statements of accounts : I. July 1, 1907, to 
May 27, 1908, at which time the Philosophical Society handed over its 
balance to the Eoyal Society. II. May 28, 1908, to December 31, 1908. 
III. January 1, 1909, to December 31, 1909. The Council is satisfied that 
these are true accounts. 
L. Peeinguey, Secretary. 
