Section E.— ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, NATIVE 

 EDUCATION. PHILOLOGY, AND NATIVE SOCIO- 

 LOGY. 



President of the Section : — Rev. W. A. Norton, B.A., B.Litt. 



FRIDAY, JULY 12. 



The President delivered the followinsf address : 



AN OUTLINE SKETCH OF RESEARCH INTO THINGS 

 NATIVE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE 

 BANTU AND THE WORK OF THIS ASSOCIATION. 



It seems natural that a presidential address from time to time 

 should summarise the progress made hitherto, and I therefore 

 propose, after sketching very lightly the field of this section and 

 the workers in that field of the past, to treat in more detail of 

 those subjects which have occupied the meetings of the section 

 since its separation from Section D, and former papers which 

 would have been contributed to Section E. had that section then 

 existed. Finally, to draw attention to subjects crying for solu- 

 tion, and the possible bearing of that solution on the whole of 

 our field. 



Section E is intended to be the native section (not that the 

 members of it are native, except in so far as a large and in- 

 creasing number of us are African-born), but in the sense that 

 it has, with becoming modesty, taken all the Sciences for its 

 province which have to do, specially or immediately, with natives. 



According to the programme of the last two annual meet- 

 ings, the subjects of Section E are Anthropology, Ethnology, 

 Native Education, Philology, and Native Sociology. It is true 

 that the Philology is not specifically Bantu, or even African, but 

 I notice that philological papers like that of Professor Nauta 

 on French literature were wont to be taken with the educational 

 subjects, which now, we are glad to see, have a section to them- 

 selves. 



For two years now, Section E has been in the same condi- 

 tion, the subjects of which tended before unduly to crowd with 

 papers Section D — our parent section — which has now, therefore, 

 the time to discuss that useful bird, the ostrich, and other matters. 

 I called my paper " A Sketch of the Field and of the Workers 

 contributing directly or indirectly to the subjects of our section.," 

 This will, I hope, make it clear that my treatment will be neces- 

 sarily rapid. I shall skip over regions and centuries like a hart 

 upon the hills ; but I would ask you at the end to draw with me 

 a definite conclusion. 



Obviously all African explorers would be alone too large a 

 scope to treat of, or even to I'ist, in a paper of this sort, so I will 



