President's Address. 



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take. I will not even commit myself to the statement that it is pos- 

 sible. But I think you will all agree with me that, under some 

 form of closer union amongst scientific organizations, scientific enquiry 

 in South Africa could undoubtedly be carried on more economically, 

 and with less waste of effort, than is possible under existing condi- 

 tions. By promoting closer union and co-operation in scientific 

 matters, the Association will, to quote the words of its own Constitu- 

 tion, " give a more systematic direction to scientific enquiry," and 

 will thus do much towards affording to scientific enquiry in South 

 Africa that " stronger impulse " which, by its Constitution, it has 

 undertaken, and bound itself, to provide. 



