Staff details may be seen in Public Service Lists of the Cape Colony.
Alexander du Toit did extensive mapping of the Karoo System geology and other western areas of South Africa.
Later du Toit published literature in support of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, supported by the detailed maps he and others had created for the survey of this region and from later mapping in southern South America.
[2] The annual reports were issued in two forms: as an ordinary Blue Book presented to both Houses of Parliament, printed on common paper and in octavo size; and a limited number printed on thick paper, in small quarto size.
The commission issued geological maps with a scale of 1:238,000 (1,600 Cape Roods = 1 inch).