TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION E. 803 



Agriculture at present is in a depressed state. There is plenty of arable land 

 on the high veldt and excellent wheat, as all English vegetables alongside the 

 banana and orange can be grown. The high and middle veldts are more suitable 

 for stockfarming. Facilities for u-rigation abound. The tsetse does not exist on 

 the high veldt. The mineral wealth of the country still awaits development. The 

 Tati gold-field is now being worked by an Englisla company, but a nod from the 

 Matabele king may at any time put an end to this. It is a pity that this infant 

 colony should not have been made the basis from which British interests in Mata- 

 belelaud might be protected. The extension of the railway from Kimberley to the 

 Tati mines would have a most beneficial effect in attracting settlers. Complaints 

 have lately been made that northern Bechuanaland is gradually drying up, and it 

 is not difficult to prove that at one time Lake Ngami was drained through the 

 Botletle, Lake Makarikari, and the Shashi into the Limpopo. 



10. A Note on Eougldon, the African Traveller} 

 By Major Sir Hebbert Perrot. 



1_. Western Australia} Bij Job's Fobb,est, O.M.G. 



12. Second Beport of the Committee appointed for the purpose of reporting 

 upon the Depth of Bermanenthj Frozen Soil in the Polar Begions. — 

 See Reports, p. 152. 



SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ?,. 



The Section did not meet. 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 



The following Papers and Report were read : — 



1. The Beginnivg of the Geography of Great Britain} 

 By Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, F.B.S. 



2. Beport of the Committee for co-operating tuith the Boyal Geographical 

 Society in endeavouring to bring before the authorities of the Universities 

 of Oxford and Cambridge the advisability of promoting the study of 

 Geography by establishing special Chairs for the purpose. — See Reports, 

 p. 158. 



3. Geography at the Universities} By H. J. Mackindeb, M.A. 



4. The Buhy Mines of Burma} By J. Skelton Streeter. 



' Published in the Proceedings of the Royal GeoyrapMcal Society. 



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