ADDRESS 



BY 



His Excellency Sir HAMILTON GOOLD-ADAMS, 



G.C.M.G., C.B., 



PRESIDENT. 



I desire first of all to thank the members of the Association for 

 the honour they did me last year in electing me their President 

 for the current year, and I further wish to express the pleasure it 

 gives me to extend to those members now present a hearty welcome 

 to the city of Bloemfontein at this their Annual Meeting. 



The Agenda which has been prepared and circulated amongst 

 members sets forth the daily programme of business for the meeting. 

 I therefore think there is no necessity for me to deal with it further 

 than to express to those gentlemen who have so kindly consented 

 to address the Association during the present session my hearty 

 thanks for their coming forward and doing so. 



I appreciate very highly the compliment the members of the 

 Association have paid me by electing me their President. At the 

 same time I cannot help feeling very diffident, owing to my lack 

 of scientific knowledge, in attempting to fill that role. I believe 

 it is customary for the President at the Annual Meeting of the 

 members of the Association to add his quota to the papers which 



