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ADDRESS 



BY 



Professor PAUL DANIEL HAHN, M.A., Ph.D., 



PRESIDENT. 



I must thank the Council of this Association for the honour 

 of having been elected President of the Association for the 

 current year. Having been engaged for over thirty-five years 

 in teaching Science and in propagating and spreading scientific 

 knowledge, I consider my present position a compliment to the 

 profession to which I have the honour to belong. At the Annual 

 Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement 

 of Science a revicAv of the progress, advancement, and present 

 condition of teaching of Science in our colleges is certainly a 

 very appropriate subject for a presidential address: more so 

 because I find that this important suibject has not been dealt 

 with by my predecessors in their presidential addresses. Last 

 year Dr. Muir, Superintendent-General of Education in the Cape 

 Province of the Union of South Africa, referred to " the State's 

 duty to Science." Amongst other interesting stateanents Dr. 



