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can go and feed upon them. The herd are holding their 

 own now, and slowly increasing in numbers. 



After this visit we made a long tour through the Knysna 

 and Tsitsikamer Forests, through the native reservations 

 in the Transkei, and through Big and Little Pongoland. 

 This gave opportunity to visit our friend Mr. Hewitt, 

 whose excellent museum at Grahamstown unfortunately 

 recently has burned to the ground. Hewitt kindly guided 

 us to one of our most interesting experiences during the 

 whole trip. This was a visit to some rock shelters where 

 there were excellent bushmen paintings and carvings on the 

 rocks. Major Shortridge showed us his wonderful mammal 

 collection at the Kaffrarian Museum at King William's 

 Town. He certainly has one of the finest collections if not 

 the very best in the whole world of the small mammals of 

 South Africa. At Durban Mr. Chubb described to us the 

 excellent service which the museum there is rendering to 

 the school system of the city, a complete co-operation 

 which I should be proud to see copied in Boston, and which 

 has only been equaled, if not perhaps excelled, by the 

 work done by the museum at St. John, New Brunswick. 

 Aided by grants from the Carnegie British Empire Trust 

 the Durban museum has been used more or less as a 

 laboratory subject. The population of the city is a con- 

 siderable mixture. There are many British, a very few 

 Boers, an enormous Indian population, and many natives. 

 By bringing children in groups to the museum and by 

 circulating small collections to the schools a really im- 

 portant educational work has been built up, and it is in- 

 teresting to see Zulus, in more or less conventional costumes, 

 looking with interest at the objects representing the arts 



