July, 1905.] 



KNOWLEDGE & SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



171 



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COL. BRUCE, C.B., F.R.S. 



Col. Bkuce, R.A.M.C, President of Section I, Physiology, now resident 

 London, was formerly quartered at Pietermaritzburg. An authority in 

 nches of Pathological enquiry, he discovered (1887) the micro-organism 

 of Malta Fever Olicro-coccus Melitemig), In Zululand, under official auspices, 

 he studied the devastating Tsetse Fly disease, or Nagana. In Uganda, he recently 

 investigated with striking success the causation of the dreaded malady Sleeping 

 Sickness, and denoted the actual carrier of the infective organism to be a 

 species of Tsetse Fly. 



MR. H. W. T. WAOER, F.R.S. 



Mr. H*eold W. T. Wager, H.M. Inspector of Schools (Secondary 

 Branch), Prebident of Section K, Botany, was formerly Lecturer on Botany 

 in Yorkshire College, Leeds. He is the author of numerous botanical 

 memoirs, among these "The Sexuality of the Fungi"; "On the Phosphoinis 

 containiog-Elements in Yeast." 



SIR R. C. JEBB, M.P., CM. 



Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek in the 

 University of Cambridge, is President of Section L, Educational Science. 

 A distinguiehed member of the British Academy, he was recently ihe 

 recipient of the Order of Merit. Ho represents Cambridge Univtrsity in 

 Parliament. 



Scptiiiibcr 6. — In the evening a lecture will be delivered by 

 Prof. J. Bonsall Porter, of Montreal, on '-The Bearing of 

 Engineering on Mining." 



In the morning the whole body of visitors will entrain at Kimberley 

 for Beaconsfield. thence to De Beers Sidings, and will proceed by 

 rail to Du Toil's Pan and Wesselton Mines. Trips will be made to 

 Kenilworth, Pulsator, and Alexandersfontein. 



Seploiihcr 7-S.— Leave Kimberley en route for Bulawayo (Ofticial 

 party). 



BULAWAYO.— .Sc/'^-/;(/)f(' .9.— In the evening a lecture will 

 be delivered by Mr. Randall Maclver on the " Zimbabwe." 



In the CDurse of the mornirg and afternoon the Public Buildings, 

 Memorials, and Museum will be inspected ; in the evening a conver- 

 sazione will take place in the Drill Hall. 



Scptcmher 10 (Sunday). — Leave for Matopos by train; travel by 

 coach through the Matopos to the World's View. Inspect Rhodes 

 Park, the site of the grave of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, Shangani Memorial, 

 and the Khami Ruins, and return to Bulawayo. 



September /?.— Official party leaves for the Victoria Falls. 



September ?2.— Arrive at Victoria Falls ; visit the Palm Grove. 

 Rain Forest, Zambezi Bridge, &c. 



September 13. — Leave Victoria Falls (morning) for Bulawayo. 



September 14. — Official party arrives at Bulawayo (early morning), 

 Garden party in South Park (afternoon). Official party leaves for 

 Cape Town (evening), arriving Sunday, September 17 (afternoon). 



September 20. — The Official party, homeward bound, leaves for 

 England, arriving at Southampton on Saturday, October 7. 



Members who are returning to England by the Beira route 

 leave the Victoria Falls, September 14, and embark on the Durham 

 Castle on Sunday, September 17. The ports of call are : Mczam- 

 bique, Zanzibar, Mombasi (Kilindini), Port Said, Marseilles, and 

 Southampton, the last-named being reached on October 20. 



