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ANNUAL MEETINGS 



arrangement with the South African Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, members of that body 

 were enrolled as associates of the British Association. 

 The programme of scientific work was on a more 

 elaborate scale than had hitherto been attempted. 

 The sections began their meetings at Cape Town, 

 and continued them at Johannesburg. The Presi- 

 dential Address (by Professor, afterwards Sir, George 

 Darwin) was delivered in two parts, one in each 

 of these two cities, and the sectional presidents' 

 addresses were divided between them, that in Sec- 

 tion L (Education) being delivered at both. A party 

 which numbered 347 overseas visitors and 85 members 

 resident in South Africa received free railway passes 

 for the whole or parts of an extensive journey, for 

 which special trains were provided by the Cape and 

 Natal Governments. This journey embraced official 

 visits to Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Colenso and 

 Ladysmith, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, 

 Kimberley, Bulawayo, and the Victoria Falls of the 

 Zambezi. At all these, excepting Colenso, Lady- 

 smith, and the Victoria Falls, lectures were delivered 

 by members. Lavish hospitality was extended to 

 visitors : Gill humorously records the embarrass- 

 ment of a lady member who found that ' a strange 

 man ' insisted upon paying for her hotel accommoda- 

 tion at one of the centres. At the Victoria Falls 

 the railway bridge over the Zambezi was formally 

 opened by the President, in the presence of Sir Charles 

 Metcalfe and other officers of the British South 

 Africa Company. A special series of postage stamps 

 was issued to commemorate this event. The party, 

 after returning to Bulawayo, divided, one portion 

 proceeding by Salisbury, Umtali, Beira, and the east 



