The "B" box collection relates mainly to the period 1930 to 1950, although there are some documents as early as 1926 and some all late as 1961. This inventory boar the title "Part I" as there have been subsequent deposits of the Institute's archives which will be inventoried at a later date.

The "B" box collection has been retained as an entity in accordance with Standard archival practice and the files have been kept in their original order. Many of the files overlap and contain material irrelevant to the subject matter of the file. In view of the extensive use made of the collection over the last ten years by researchers who took references according to the then existing arrangement, it was decided not to re-sort. The present box numbers have been retained, but the files which previously bore an alphabetical notation have now been given a numerical one, e.g. the original 4f now becomes 4.6.

This inventory lists the number of items in each file, mention the names of the principal correspondents, indicates the subject field and itemises anything of particular importance. A brief sketch of the Institute is included and a comprehensive index of all personal names mentioned in the inventory and of selective subject fields has been provided, thus bringing together scattered subjects. The words "Native", "African", "Bantu" and "Non-European" have been used where they were the approved nomenclature of the day.

Subjects covered are the social and economic conditions of Blacks, Coloureds and Indians, with particular reference to education, literacy, land, farm labour, labour relations, housing, the urban Black, health and welfare services, medical training, juvenile delinquency, the liquor problem, discriminatory legislation and penal reform. This collection, covering almost three decades, in of great importance to economic, social and political historians.

Anna M. Cunningham, 1 August 1981.

Address by Dr E.C. Jansen to the annual conference of the S.A.I.R.R.

Agenda and minutes of proceedings; list of members.

Includes:.

Nominations of Rheinallt Jones, W.G. Ballinger, H. Basner and others for Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

On legislation affecting Blacks.

Regulations on exemption from paws laws; report by the Durban Joint Council on the issue of letters of exemption; correspondence between Rheinallt Jones, Department of Native Affairs and Black applicants, including Daniel T. Mafata, President of the O.F.S. African Herbalist Association.

On the night pass system and simplification of the page laws by the Johannesburg Joint Council; statement by Q. Whyte on the "Passes for Women" Bill; short resume of section 17 of the Urban Areas Act; extracts from the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Pass Laws; speech in the senate by Rheinallt Jones.

Correspondence with the Department of the Interior re the granting of passports to Black students studying overseas and the refusal of a passport to A.S.V. Nkomo who wished to attend a conference in New York.