626 REPORT—1905. 
Austin, the Rev. C. S. Franklin on Native Folklore, Mr. Dewar on Ento- 
mology, Dr. Potts on Agricultural Natural History, and Mr. Ivan H. Haarburger 
on the work of Professor Max Miiller. 
The increasing number of corresponding and country members, from whom we 
may hope to receive notes and observations of matters of interest in their 
respective neighbourhoods, is distinctly encouraging. 
Assuring you of the pleasure it gives us to join in welcoming you to our 
Colony, and hoping that you will carry home many pleasant recollections of your 
visit 
; We have the honour to be, 
Ladies and Gentlemen, 
Very faithfully yours, 
Horace W. Orrorp, Acting Vice-President. 
J. Briwt, Past Vice-President. 
O. Hatcu, Hon. Treasurer. 
W.5S. Jounson, Hon. Secretary. 
Bloemfontein, 
September 2, 1905. 
Reply. 
To THE Presipenr AND Members oF THE PHILOSOPHICAL Society OF 
THE ORANGE River Conony, BLomMFonTEIN, SoutH AFRICA. 
Burlington House, London, W. 
November 30, 1905. 
GENTLEMEN,—On behalf of the Council of the British Association, I beg leave 
to give you a formal acknowledgment of the receipt of a copy of the Address of 
Welcome presented on the second day of September last by the Philosophical Society 
of the Orange River Colony to the members of the Association. 
The foundation of your Philosophical Society affords a proof that intellectual 
interests are firmly implanted in the minds of the inhabitants of the Culony; and 
we are convinced that conditions of economic and political prosperity will lead 
your Society onward from the fair promise of its youth to a flourishing maturity. 
Although our visit to Bloemfontein was necessarily brief, yet it has left an 
impression which will not easily be effaced from the recollection of those whose 
privilege it was to receive such a cordial welcome and such hospitable enter- 
tainment. 
I beg leave, Gentlemen, to remain, 
Yours faithfully, 
G. H. Darwin, 
President of the British Association 
for the Advancement of Science. 
ZEERUST (TRANSVAAL). 
Tue Members or THE British ASSOCIATION FOR THE 
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 
Zeerust, Transvaal. 
September 1905. 
GENTLEMEN,—We, the undersigned Chairman and members of the Zeerust 
Municipal Council, as representing the citizens of the town of Zeerust, tender you 
our most hearty welcome. While regretting the brevity of your stay in our 
midst, we feel honoured in being accorded the opportunity of meeting some of the 
greatest men produced by the British nation, e 
