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ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION: THOS. MUIR,

C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E.

ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF SECTION A.: Prof. J. C. BEATTIE,

D.Sc., F.R.S.E.

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ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF SECTION B.: A. W. ROGERS, M.A.,

Sc.D., F.G.S. ..

ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF SECTION C.: Prof. H. H. W. PEAR-

SON, M.A., Sc. D., F.L.S.

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HONORARY PRESIDENT.

HIS MAJESTY THE KING.

PRESIDENT.

THOMAS MUIR, C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

WILLIAM CULLEN, General Works Manager | P. D. HAHN, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Chemof the Modderfontein Dynamite Factory, Transvaal.

HON. GENERAL SECRETARIES.

HON. GENERAL TREASURER.

Prof. R. A. LEHFELDT, B.A., D.Sc., Transvaal University College, Johannesburg.

ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY.

E. HOPE JONES, P.O. Box 1497, South African Museum Buildings, Cape Town.
(Telegraphic Address: "Scientific.")

OF THE

SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

[As Amended at the Third Annual Meeting at Johannesburg, 1905.]

I. OBJECTS.

The objects of the Association are :-To give a stronger impulse
and a more systematic direction to scientific enquiry; to promote
the intercourse of societies and individuals interested in Science
in different parts of South Africa; to obtain a more general
attention to the objects of pure and applied Science, and the
removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which may impede
its progress.

II. MEMBERSHIP.

(a) All persons interested in the objects of the Association are
eligible for Membership.

(b) The Association shall consist of Permanent Members, here-
after called "Members," and Temporary Members, elected for a
session, hereafter called "Associates."

(c) Members and Associates shall be elected directly by the
Council, or by the Managing Committee of Council. Associates
may also be elected by Local Committees. Members may also be
elected by a majority of the Members of Council resident in that
centre at which the next ensuing session is to be held.

(d) The Council shall have the power, by a three-fourths vote,
to remove the name of anyone whose Membership is no longer
desirable in the interests of the Association.

III.-PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES.
(a) Members shall be eligible for all offices of the Association,
and shall receive gratuitously all ordinary publications issued
by the Association during the year of their admission, and during
the years in which they continue to pay, without intermission, their
Annual Subscription.

(b) Associates are eligible to serve on the Local Reception
Committee, but are not eligible to hold any other office, and they
are not entitled to receive gratuitously the publications of the
Association.

(c) Members may purchase from the Association (for the purpose
of completing their sets) any of the Annual Reports of the
Association, at a price to be fixed upon by the Council.

IV. SUBSCRIPTIONS.

(a) The Annual Subscription for Members shall be One Pound,
payable first at election, and thereafter on the First of July of
each year. After the first session* intending Members shall be
required to pay an Entrance Fee of One Pound in addition.

*The first session was held in Cape Town from 27th April to 2nd May, 1903.