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Peninsula to the Transvaal and even to Basutoland there have been 
isolated workers engaged in collecting and investigating the flora 
of the country, stimulated and assisted, so far as may be, by students 
in the more populous centres of the southern coast. A great deal 
has been done in this way, without show, but not without cost, both 
of time and money, in laying the foundations for further advance.” 
The foundations have been well laid and of the many who have 
been concerned in laying them, Dr. Bolus was among the chief. 
His desire to assist the student who, for lack of opportunity, 
want of means, or for some other cause, was unable to follow his 
bent, was not circumscribed by the limits of his own subject. 
Many students have had cause to realise this, and now it is made 
ublic by the directions attached to his munificent beet to the 
South African College for the establishment of what will be known 
as the Bolus Scholarships. In selecting the scholars the authorities 
are enjoined “to search out those who are really in : 
pecuniary assistance to help them carry on their studies ; rather 
to insist on evidence of good moral character, industry and a desire 
to learn than to be influenced by the evidence of superior.men 
ability.”. The same spirit is seen in his careful provision wot 
copies of his own published works are to be supplied at reduc: 
prices to students. 
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