KNOWLEDGE & SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



[July, 1905. 



^VICTORIA FALLS 



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BRITISH Assoaum 

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TABLE OF DISTANCES 



Southampton to Cape 



Town . . . . 5.97S 



Cape Town to Johan- 

 nesburg .. .. 1,013 



Cape Town to Blocm- 



foniein . . . . 750 



Cape Town to Kim- 



berley . . . . by] 



Cape Town to Bula- 



wayo .. .. 1,362 



Bulawayo to Victoria 



Falls .. .. 275 



PIETERMARITZBURO.— /iKg^Hs/ 2^.— Leave Durban for 

 Pietermaritzburg, by special trains (momiriK). In the evening, 

 Colonel David Bruce, C.B.,' F.K.S., will deliver a lecture on 

 "[Sleeping' Sickness." 



In the afternoon, a garden party. 



August 25. — Visits to the Museum, Educational Institutions, 

 and Public Buildings generally. 



Excnrsion to Native Location, Henley, with Kafir dance; Govern- 

 ment Kxpcrimental Farm, Codara ; Government Laboratory, Aller- 

 ton ; Town bush Valley Nurseries. 



August 20. — Leave Pietermaritzburg by special trains for a visit to 

 Colenso ; sleep in the special trains ; leave for I..adysmith August 27 

 (Sunday) and visit the town ; depart same day for Johannesburg. 



JOHANNESBURQ.— /1m/j»5< 2H.—\n the evening a lecture 

 will be delivered by Prof. \V. R. Ayrton, F.K.S., on " Distri- 

 bution of Power." 



Auf;ust 2.'>.^Sectional Meetings. Presidential Addresses to 

 Section B, Chcmi.stry ; Section C, Geology ; Section G, 

 Engineering ; Section I, Physiology ; and Section K, 

 Botany. — A Report by Mr. G. \V. Lamplugh, F.R.S., on the 

 " Geology of the Victoria Falls," will take the form of an 

 afternoon address to Section C. 



In the afternoon a garden party will be given by His Fxcellency 

 the High Commissioner for South Africa (the Earl of Selborne, 

 G.C.M.G.); in the evening, a reception by the Mayor and Town 

 Council of Johannesburg. 



August 30. — Sectional Meetings (morning); visit to 

 Mines (afternoon). 



In the evening Prof. G. H. Darwin will deliver thesecord 

 portion of the Presidential Address in St. Mary's Hall. 



PRETORIA.— .l»n^»s( j7.— Visit to Prcton.i. 



In the evening a lecture will be delivered by Mr. A. E. 

 Shipley, F.R.S., on " Fly-borne Disea,ses, Malaria, &c." 



A garden party will be given by His Excellency the 

 Lieutenant-Governor (Sir Arthur Lawley, K.C.M.G.). 

 Visits will be paid to the Museum and Zoological Gardens, 

 and other places of interest. A luncheon will be given by 

 the Mayor and Town Council of Pretoria. Excursions 

 can be made to the Dynamite Factory, Modderfontein, and 

 the Premier Diamond Mine. 



The President and most of the members will sleep at 

 Pretoria, but the Sectional officers return to Johannesburg 

 in the evening by special train. 



JOHANNESBURQ.— ^K^HS/ 31.— In the evening a lecture 

 will be delivered by Prof. J. O. Arnold on " Steel as an Igneous 

 Rock." 



September 1. — Sectional Meetings (morning) ; General Com- 

 mittee (afternoon). 



In the afternoon there will be a Kafir dance at the Wanderers' 

 Club. During the Johannesburg visit various excursions will be 

 made, and visits of inspection paid to Public Huildings and to the 

 Government Experimental I'arm, Potchefstroom. There will also 

 be a cross-country trip for a limited number to Mafeking. 



BLOEMFONTEIN.— S./'/.w/'cy 2.— A lecture will be de- 

 livered in the evening by Mr. A. R. Hinks, on " The Milky Way 

 and the Clouds of Magellan." 



A public welcome will be extended to the Association by the 

 Mayor and Town Council of Bloemfontein, and there will be a 

 reception at Government House. 



Sipttmhir 3 CSunrfay^.— Special train to Mcdderpoort, stopping at 

 Sannah's Post; lunch on board the train, provided by the hospi- 

 tality of the town. A trek to Kimberley will be arranged for a 

 limited number, touching Driefonlein and I'aardeberg, and camping 

 in General Cronje's old laager. 



September </.— I..eave Bloemfontein by special trains for Kim 

 t)erley. 



KlMBERLEy.—.Septemher J.— In the evening a lecture will 

 be delivered by Sir William Crookes, F.R.S., on " Diamonds." 



Underground visits to Mines (in parties) will be made There 

 will be a garden parly at the Public Gardens. 



