APPENDIX. 
Seoul APRICA* 1905, 
[PLATE V.] 
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Narrative and Itinerary of the Meeting of the British 
Association in South Africa. 
[With Two MAPs.] 
The Seventy-fifth Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science was held in South Africa, on the invitation of the Governments 
of the several Colonies and of Rhodesia. 
The work of organisation at home was entrusted to a special Committee of the 
Council, comprised of the following gentlemen: Professor Armstrong, the Right 
Tion. A. J. Balfour (President), Dr. Horace Brown, Sir William Crookes, Pro- 
fessor G. H. Darwin (President Elect), Sir James Dewar, Sir Archibald Geikie, 
Professor Herdman (General Secretary), Major P.A. MacMahon (General 
Secretary), Professor H. A. Miers, Professor Perry (General Treasurer), Sir Henry 
Roscoe, and Dr. P. L, Sclater. This Committee, in addition to other important 
duties, was charged with the selection, for the approval of the Council, of the 
members who were invited to join the Official Party as guests of the South 
African Colonies. With this Committee rested also the nomination of the 
pioneers who were chosen to proceed to South Africa in advance of the Official 
Party for the purpose of making those special investigations which had been 
indicated by the South African Local Committees. 
In South Africa, the elaborate details of organisation and co-ordination were 
carried out by the Local Officers, under the general supervision and direction of 
Sir David Gill, as Chairman of the Central Organising Committee for South Africa, 
with Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist. and Mr. W. Cullen as Honorary Secretaries. Local 
Committees were established at Cape Town, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Ladysmith, 
Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Kimberley, and Bulawayo, with a Sub- 
Committee for Salisbury and the Victoria Falls. 
A sum of 6,000/., subscribed by the undermentioned Governments, was 
contributed as a subvention towards the ocean passages of members of the 
official party of invited guests :— 
£ 
Cape Colony ; , : y : . . 3,000 
Transvaal and Orange River Colony. : - 2,000 
Natal . : ‘ : ; : . 4 » 1,000 
6,000 
A Special Fund, amounting to 3,100/., was privately subscribed at home, in 
order to meet extraordinary expenditure in connection with the Meeting. 
The number of over-sea members visiting South Africa was 380. By a 
special arrangement with the South African Association for the Advancement of 
