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left for England, the party broke up. The President presented to the 

 Mayor a valedictory address in the following terms : — 



' To His Worship the Mayor, the Corporation, and Citizens of Durban. 



' Those members of the British Association who have enjoyed the 

 hospitality of Durban could not leave Africa with last memories happier 

 than those inspired by their visit here, though that has been all too short. 

 Nor could the applications of science to industry and human welfare be 

 better illustrated than in this new city of less than a century's development 

 from its foundation to maturity as the third city of South Africa in popula- 

 tion, and one of its principal seaports. The excursions kindly arranged 

 by the local committee have shown the visitors something of the activities 

 of the port, with its graving dock, its busy quays, oil sites and whaling 

 station. By visiting the municipal native affairs institutions they have 

 been enabled to learn of the sympathetic treatment of native problems, 

 and among other places of interest they have seen the fine installation at 

 the Congella power station. All these are in effect centres of applied 

 science, and for the teaching of science Natal has in its technical college 

 an institution worthy of all possible support, and destined, as members 

 of the Association hope and believe, to great expansion. 



' The visiting members most warmly thank Durban for their generous 

 reception, and wish continued and increasing prosperity for the city and 

 the province of Natal.' 



The Secretary of the Association, at the request of the President, 

 broadcast from Durban a speech of farewell to South Africa, which was 

 relayed to Johannesburg. 



Tour 2. 



This tour, leaving Johannesburg on August 7, followed the same 

 route and programme as Tour 1 as far as Victoria Falls, Bulawayo, and 

 the return to Johannesburg. Prof. Sir T. Hudson Beare lectured at 

 Bulawayo on welfare work in the mining industry. 



The tour proceeded to Matafiin and visited the orange groves and the 

 Tomango factory of Messrs. Hall & Sons, and after a few hours at Nelspruit, 

 spent two days at Barbertor. The party was welcomed by the Mayor, and a 

 reception was held in the town hall. The party visited the co-operative 

 cotton ginnery, and attended a reception in the evening. Lectures were 

 given by Professor Eeynolds on ' Volcanoes ' and by Mr. G. L. Purser on 

 ' A Hen's Egg.' On the second day the cotton plant research laboratories 

 were visited, after which the party divided, some members going to an 

 amianthus mine, and others motoring up 2,500 feet into the Barberton 

 Hills and, after a picnic luncheon, visiting a native encampment. A 

 lecture was given in the evening by Mr. C. A. Yates on ' The Game 

 Reserve,' with lantern slides from photographs he had taken of various 

 wild animals at their watering place. 



After seeing the hippopotami at Komatipoort, the tour passed on into 

 Portuguese East Africa and spent a night at Louren9o Marques, where, 

 by courtesy of the city, members of the British Association were made 

 free of the tramway, and taken for a trip by tugboat round the bay. The 



