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We are convinced that your visit to these shores has been made at considerable 
personal sacrifice by some of you, but the benefit derived therefrom by this sub- 
continent in particular, and the whole scientific world in general, cannot be over- 
estimated, We trust your tour has been both pleasant and interesting to yourselves, 
and hope that your future progress will be accompanied with the same good 
fortune, so that when you return to your homes you will feel satisfied that you 
have been fully compensated for the time, trouble, and expense offered up by you 
8. J. Faupussune, Chairman. 
T. G,. SEPHTON, 
W. Dictrta, 
J. THOMSON, jun., 
Ernest W. Swestey, } Members, 
J. C. TRuscorr, 
EDWARD SEPHTON, 
Durett W, BisHor, 
Reply. 
To THE CHAIRMAN AND MemBErRS OF THE MounicipaAL Councit, 
ZEERUST, TRANSVAAL, 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 the Address of Welcome 
presented to the members of the Association who visited Zeerust; and I desire 
turther to thank the Municipal Council for the generous reception accorded to 
them. 
We feel sure that both for hosts and guests the visit to South Africa will 
prove a fruitful stimulus to the advancement of science, and to the cordial 
relationships established throughout our memorable tour in South Africa, 
I beg leave, Gentlemen, to remain, 
Yours faithfully, 
G. H. Darwin, 
President of the British Association 
Sor the Advancement of Science. 
From tne Marico AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY TO THE CHAIRMAN AND 
MEMBERS OF THE BritTISH ASSOCIATION. 
Zeerust, 
September 5, 1905. 
 GENTLEMEN,—It gives us, the farming community, great pleasure in presenting 
this Address of Welcome to you to the sbores of South Africa in general, more 
particularly to our little village, Zeerust. We are not in a position to receive you 
with the great pomp of the big places; but, nevertheless, we can assure you that 
we welcome you with a cordial welcome. Taking the object of your visit to be 
manifold, trusting on coming to the end of your tour, you will always be able to 
look back to this your visit as profitable in the advancement of science, as well as 
pleasurable to yourselves. 
We are glad to have such a strong representative body of highly cultured 
members of the British Umpire here, thanking you at the same time by consider- 
ing this our remote part, and to have planned it so that we could meet a section 
of the Society face to face, hoping it will tend to strengthen the link between the 
people of Great Britain and ber Colonies in general, and this country in particular, 
by getting to know each other better; the came will then be true ifa representative 
body from South Africa should visit Great Britain. 
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