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ANNUAL MEETINGS 



the South African Association was invited in con- 

 nexion with the resolutions concerning native charac- 

 teristics and nomenclature. The same body, with 

 the consent of the Council, prepared for publication, 

 in four volumes, all the papers of South African 

 interest read at the sectional meetings. Eesearch 

 committees were formed in connexion with the 

 magnetic survey of South Africa, the correlation 

 and age of South African geological strata, the study 

 of the freshwater fishes of South Africa (especially 

 those of the Zambezi), of South African cycads, and 

 of the fossil flora of the Transvaal, and other 

 researches less directly concerned with South 

 Africa were taken up as results of the meeting. The 

 special attention paid to geodetic and allied topics 

 is sufficiently explained by the presence and inspira- 

 tion of Sir David Gill, who also was primarily 

 responsible for the arrangements made in South 

 Africa for the meeting. 



WINNIPEG, 1909 



After a short interval the Association again went 

 abroad, meeting in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1909. It 

 is of incidental interest to observe the westward 

 progress of the successive Canadian meetings, in 

 Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg : and to quote a 

 few lines from Sir William Tilden's memoir of Sir 

 William Eamsay (London, 1918), who was one of a 

 party which before attending the Montreal meeting 

 made an extended tour in the west : ' At Winnipeg 

 they stepped of? to see what remained of old Fort 

 Garry, the great seat of the early days of the Hudson's 

 Bay Company. Twenty[-five] years later the British 



