ABSTRACT
The University of Cape Town was quick to recognize Schonland’s talents and achievements. At its meeting in March 1930 the University Council agreed to award him a special personal allowance of £100 per annum in recognition of the honour he had brought the University through his recent research publications that had appeared in the leading scientific journals of the day. ‘Their importance’, the scribe recorded, ‘was shown by the use made of his results in recent scientific text-books and the literature’ [1]. And he had caught the eye of those farther afield as well.
