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At Fort Victoria motors enabled the visitors to reach various farms 

 and mines, where they were hospitably received. Two evening lectures 

 were given at Fort Victoria, one by Prof. A. F. Barker on ' Some Problems 

 relating to Wool,' and one by Mr. J. A. Venn on ' The Economics of 

 Farming.' 



One night was spent at Salisbury, where Sir Robert Greig gave a 

 lecture on ' Some Agricultural Contrasts." After the lecture the members 

 were guests of the municipality and of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 

 at a reception supper at the Grand Hotel. 



The train left for Beira next morning, and at the request of the people 

 of Umtali was accelerated so as to enable the party to have a short space 

 of daylight at that place. Many cars met the train at Umtali and took 

 the visitors to the top of Christmas Pass and round the town before 

 darkness set in. Then the party was received at the public hall by the 

 Mayor and the local scientific society. 



The S.S. Matiana carried the party from Beira to Mombasa, calling 

 en route at Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar and Tanga. 



Only a few hours were spent at Zanzibar, where the visitors were taken 

 ashore by the Sultan's launches. Various British residents showed them 

 the town and drove them out into the country to see the coconut and clove 

 plantations, and then entertained them to dinner at their houses. 



Mombasa was reached on August 9, and about thirty members of the 

 party broke their journey there and remained in Kenya Colony for over 

 a fortnight as its guests. The remaining members of Tour 9 — including a 

 few who had left the boat at Tanga and travelled by rail round the foot of 

 Kilimanjaro to Voi in Kenya Colony^ — made a hurried trip to Nairobi. 

 They then rejoined the Matiana, in which they returned to England 

 together with the members of Tour 8. 



The thirty members of Tour 9 who stayed in Kenya Colony were 

 welcomed and treated most hospitably by both official and private residents, 

 and were given unrivalled facilities for seeing as much as possible in the 

 time at their disposal. On September 3 Dr. Ethel N. Miles Thomas gave 

 a lecture in Nairobi on ' Some Problems of Inheritance,' Sir Daniel Hall 

 and Mr. W. G. Ogg on the afternoon of September 10 lectured on ' Soil 

 Problems ' at Nairobi, while Prof. H. Bassett lectured on ' Recent Chemical 

 Discovery and its Bearing on Industry ' at Nairobi on September 11, 

 and at Mombasa on September 14. The evening before leaving Nairobi 

 (September 12) the party was entertained to a banquet given at the new 

 Stanley Hotel by the Mayor and Municipal Council. Sir Daniel Hall was 

 left behind in Nairobi to act as chairman of a commission on Agriculture. 

 The main party returned to England on S.S. Durham Cadle. 



It will have been observed that during the tours described above 

 many members delivered lectures to local audiences. Such lectures, 

 given in response to requests from many towns and institutions, proved 

 a special feature of the visit to South Africa ; for, in addition to those 

 mentioned, others were given in response to invitations received not only 

 by the Association but by individual members, and not only in Cape 

 Town and Johannesburg, but in a number of important centres 

 additional to those named in preceding paragraphs. 



