xxviii Transactions of tlie Royal Society of South Africa. 
Ordinary Meeting. 
September 18, 1912. 
The President, L. Peringuey, was in the Chair. 
Business : — 
The Minutes of the Meeting of August 21st were confirmed. 
The President gave a first notice of the election of the Council, 
President, and Officers, and announced that the Council recommended 
to the Society as members of Council in the following year : Dr. L. 
Peringuey, Dr. L. Crawford, Dr. J. C. Beattie, Mr. S. S. Hough, 
Dr. J. K. E. Halm, Dr. W. A. Caldecott, Dr. C. F. Juritz, Dr. G. S. 
Corstorphine, Dr. E. T. Mellor, Dr. A. Jasper Anderson, Dr. E. 
Warren, and Dr. E. Marloth. 
The Council further recommended : Dr. L. Peringuey as President, 
Dr. L. Crawford as Hon. Treasurer, and Dr. J. C. Beattie as Hon. 
General Secretary. 
The President announced that the Council had awarded the following 
Grants-in-Aid of Eesearch : — 
Hamlin, E. J., Cape Town. Ninety pounds (£90). To carry on 
research on Commutation in Electrical Machinery. 
Young, A., Cape Town. Twenty pounds (£20). To continue 
investigations on fluctuating well in the Karroo. 
Methuen, p. a., Pretoria. Fifty pounds (£50). A journey to the 
Great Karasberg Range for the study of the Taxonomy and 
Distribution of the Lower Vertebrates and Several Groups of 
the Invertebrates of Great Namaqualand. 
Rattray, G., East London. Fifty pounds (£50). Travelling expenses 
in connection with the continuation of investigation of the 
Taxonomy and Distribution of South African Cycads. 
Stephens, Miss E. L., Cape Town. Fifteen pounds (£15). {a) 
Determination of South African Fresh-water Algae, {h) Periodic 
changes in Fauna and Flora of certain South African Vleis. 
Tucker, Miss A. W., Johannesburg. Fifty pounds (£50). An 
Ethnological Survey of the Topnaar Tribe of Hottentots. 
Dr. C. F. K. Murray was nominated for membership. Proposed by 
Dr. J. C. Beattie ; seconded by the President. 
Conversazione. 
A Conversazione was held in the Hiddingh Hall, South African 
College, Cape Town, at 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday evening, September 18th. 
