xviii MEETINGS AT DURBAN. 



At 2.30 p.m., Dr. C. T. Loram, LL.B., delivered an address, 

 as President of Section E, on "The Claims of the Native Question 

 upon Scientists." Sectional Meetings followed. 



On Thursday, July 14, at 9.30 a.m., Professor J. W. Bews, 

 M.A., D.Sc, delivered an address, as President of Section C, on 

 "Some Aspects of Botany in South Africa and Plant Ecology in 

 Natal." 



At 11 a.m. the Nineteenth Annual General Meeting was held 

 in the Technical College, for the Minutes of which see page xxii. 



At 2 p.m., Members proceeded on excursions to Messrs. Lever 

 Bros.' soap works at Congella, or to the sugar refinery of Sir J. L. 

 Hulett and Sons at South Coast Junction. 



At 8 p.m., Members attended a Conversazione in the Arthur 

 Smith Hall, held by the Local and Reception Committees and the 

 Natal Society for the Advancement of Science and Art. 



On Friday, July 15, at 9.30 a.m., there was a meeting of 

 Council. At 10.30 a.m. there were Sectional Meetings. 



At 2 p.m., Members proceeded on excursions to the Indian 

 market, Municipal Native eating house and Native brewery, or 

 to the Municipal telephone exchange, Fire station, and the Old 

 Fort, or to the Natal Cane By-products' factory at Merebank. 



At 8.15 p.m., Dr. A. L. du Toit, B.A., F.G.S., gave a 

 popular, illustrated lecture on "Land Connections between the 

 other Continents and South Africa in the Past," in the Arthur 

 Smith Hall, the President of the Association presiding. 



On Saturday, July 16, at 9.30 a.m., Members proceeded on a 

 trip on the Bay, visiting the coaling plant and oil tanks on the 

 Bluff. There was a zoological excursion in the afternoon. 



