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scientifically new—has yet come out of South Africa. We have 
always followed, more or less perhaps, but, any way followed, in tracks 
already beaten. Now this is not what it should be. 
But if you think that my aspirations are of too high a grade, then 
I shall only quote from the address given ky our first President the 
late Sir Bartle Frere : 
‘“‘ Meanwhile, let us aspire to make this Society the centre which 
shall draw together in one focus the labours of all lovers of true 
science, and to which all searchers for truth and sound knowledge in 
all parts of South Africa may look for aid to prosecute: their studies 
and researches.” 
Let that be our motto, let us all strive to act up to it and then, 
I doubt not, that in time to come we will also have among us 
investigators whose original discoveries when published in our 
Transactions will tend to make our Society what not only I, but 
also all of you wish it to be, z.e., a scientific Society which, without 
perhaps aspiring to equal or be considered on par with the older 
societies of England and the Continent will become a Chartered 
Society, certainly second to no other Colonial Societies, be they 
Indian, Canadian or Australian. 
