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£S5 to Prof. M. Eindl, for Chemical Investigation of some Toxic 
and Medicinal South African Plants. 
^35 to Prof. S. J. Shand, for a study of the Alkaline Igneous Eocks of 
the Transvaal. 
c£32 10s. to Mr. K. H. BAmsrARD, for the Collection of Terrestrial and 
Fresh-water Crustacea in the Union. 
=£32 10s. to Prof. J. W. Bews, for Eesearch on the Plant Succession in 
the Grass Veld of South Africa. 
.£25 to Prof. GrEO. Potts, for a Botanical Survey in the Orange Free 
State. 
A Catalogue of the publications available in the Society's Library is now 
published in a work prepared and printed for the Trustees of the Public 
Library, Cape Town, entitled ' Cape Peninsula List of Serials.' This is a 
Catalogue of the publications available in the principal Libraries of the 
Peninsula, and a copy is available for the use of anyone using the Library. 
A number of volumes of the Proceedings and Transactions of the 
Zoological Society of London were kindly presented to the Society by Canon 
M. M. Wood. 
The sum of ^10 having been voted for binding, a commencement has 
been made with the 'Proceedings of the Eoyal Society of London' (Sections 
A and B), forty volumes of which are now in the hands of the binder. It 
is hoped that an annual vote may be made to carry on the binding of the 
contents of the Library. 
During the year it became necessary to remove the surplus stock of 
'Transactions' of the Society (S.A. Phil. Soc. and Roy. Soc. of S.A.). The 
stock was therefore removed, packed in suitably sized packages, labelled, 
and placed on the top of the shelving occupied by the Society's Library in 
the S.A. College Library, this being the only available place. 
Owing to the want of sufficient shelving certain publications in the 
Library have had to be merely stacked together, so as to save space, and 
this renders them not only untidy in appearance but less convenient for 
reference, and the time is at hand when, unless additional shelving is pro- 
vided, some of the contents of the Library will have to be packed up and 
stored away to make room for the annual increase. 
The matter of additional shelving has been brought forward annually 
since the Report for 1913, and the position now is that before the extra 
shelving can be erected a storeroom to accommodate over 200 packages of 
stock, in addition to stationery, etc., will have to be provided, as the extra 
shelving can only be erected on the top of the present shelving, there being 
no lateral space available. 
Vol. V, Part 6, and Vol. VI, Parts 1, 3 and 4 of the Society's Trans- 
actions have been issued during the year. (Vol. VI, Part 2, will be issued 
early in 1918.) The exceptional delay in the publication of the papers 
