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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
EOYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 
April 6, 1908, 
Mr. S. S. Hough, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
The President, in opening the proceedings, said that since they last 
met as the Philosophical Society the charter had been granted by the 
King, largely through the exertions of Dr. Peringuey, and on the present 
occasion they met for the first time as the Eoyal Society, duly constituted 
in South Africa. In accordance with the new statutes, the old Council 
had abandoned office, and had handed over its responsibilities to the new 
Council as drawn up by three members of the Eoyal Society of London 
resident in South Africa, and sanctioned by the former. This new Council 
had met and made arrangements to carry out the statutes. The formal 
opening of the new Society could not take place until the work of the 
Society was further advanced than it was at present. At the same time 
the Council had commenced its duties by electing officers on behalf 
of the Society. It had done him the honour of asking him to again 
occupy the presidential chair. The Council had also appointed Dr. L. 
Peringuey as Secretary, and the choice of Treasurer had fallen upon Dr. 
Bolus. He (the President) had been called upon to nominate two Vice- 
Presidents, and he had nominated Dr. Muir (Superintendent- General of 
Education) as the representative of the Cape Colony, and Dr. Theiler (of 
the Bacteriological Department, Pretoria) as the representative of the 
Transvaal. Both of these gentlemen had consented to occupy these 
positions. 
The names of the following candidates for membership were announced 
as having been suspended : N. S. Pillans, Cape Town ; S. Mendelssohn, 
