AWAIU) OF THE SOUTH AFRKIVN MEDAL 

 AND Er.NM). 



[r!;iii»C'<l l)y Aleiiil>ei> of the liritish Association in Coninieinoriition of tlieir 

 visit to Sfmtli Africa in 1905.) 



Piof. Schonland, Acting President, in handing the medal and 

 prize cif £-)0 to Dr. Arnold Theiler, addressed him as follows : — 



The main object of our society is the promotion of both pure and 

 applied science, and by bestowing our medal and prize upon j'ou T am 

 glad to feel that the honour has fallen to a man who can claim distinc- 

 tion in both branches of science. In fact, I can go even further, and 

 saj' that your work illustrates in a particularly happy manner the 

 fact that progress in applied science must go hand in hand with pro- 

 gress in pure science. Your life has been devoted particularly to the 

 study of stock-diseases in South Africa. The greater part of this sub- 

 continent seems to be destined to remain essentially a stock-raising 

 country, and thus our prosperity is very largely bound up with re- 

 searches which tend not onl}^ to eradicate the diseases which we have 

 in the country, but also to prevent other diseases from reaching our 

 parts, diseases which so far are not with us. 



You have won your spurs in the arena of South African Compara- 

 tive Pathology. Your work on the Trypanosonui bearing youi- name, 

 on equine and bovine Piroplasmosis, and your recently concluded 

 successful researches on the prevention of hoi'se-sickness give you i-ank 

 amongst the foremost comparative pathologists of the day. 



This is not the first time that your work has been publicly 

 acknowledged. His Majesty the King has conferred upon you the 

 most distinguished order of Companion of St. Michael and St. George. 

 This cirder lias as its motto : Auspicinni melioris aevi (Augury of a 

 better age), and T ventui-e to think that it is an augury of a bettei* age 

 in this our land, when we have men like you working here under such 

 a far-seeing and sympathetic Government as you are lucky ent)ugh to 

 serve under, a Government which seems to be determiiuvl to help you 

 and vour colleagues to carrv out your work under the best possible 

 conditions. It is the duty of our Council to bestow the medal and 

 prize not onlv for achievement, but also for promise in scientific re- 

 search, and the Council is confident that with your knowledge an'l 

 enthusiasm, and with the sphmdid i-esources placed at youi- disposal by 

 youi' Government, we may look foiward to continued important results 

 of your researches, which will to an enormous extent benefit our 

 country. 



In handing you now tlie medal and prize, allow me to add ni}' 

 heartiest congratulations and best wishes, that you may be spared in 

 health and energy to carry your further investigations on the diseases 

 of stock to a successful issue. 



