PREFACE. 



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This will be the last number of the Journal of the 

 S.A.O.U., and in saying farewell the Editor wishes 

 to thank those contributors who have made it 

 possible for him to issue a Journal, even though 

 it may only have been one or two numbers a year. 

 In future the ' Journal ' will be incorporated with 

 that of the S.A. Biological Society, the scope of 

 which, although much wider, will still embody all 

 that our Journal has done hitherto. The reasons 

 for this change are given in the body of this volume. 

 Naturally I much regret to see the name of the 

 Society I was mainly instrumental in founding dis- 

 appear and give place to another, but hope that 

 the change will be for the better, in so far that it 

 will be possible in future to publish a regular 

 Quarterly Journal. I trust the new venture will 

 receive the whole-hearted support of our old 

 contributors. 



Wishing all our members a prosperous and 



happy 1917. 



THE EDITOR. 



National Zoological Gardens, 

 Pretoria, September 10th, 1916. 



