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the work of the preservation of Bushmen drawings and other Bushmen 
remains. There, however, the matter seems to have ended, and up to 
the present we have not advanced any further. As the first-named 
subject has at last been taken in hand, we may hope that the second 
also will receive more attention than has hitherto been bestowed 
upon it. 
With these remarks I beg to conclude my review. It is not com- 
plete, for my address would have become too lengthy if I had attempted 
to refer to all details, therefore I beg to tender my sincere apologies to 
all authors whose publications I have not mentioned. 
Before concluding, however, I think it necessary to throw a hurried 
glance at the institutions and societies which follow scientific pursuits 
in South Africa. : 
I have already alluded to the share which the gentlemen in charge of 
the South African Museum and the Albany Museum have had in the 
work under review. 
The assistance rendered to science by the museums of the country 
and by the Cape Government Herbarium, which is well cared for by 
Professor MacOwan, is, however, not to be measured by the number 
and importance of their publications only, for the inducement for 
observation, the interest in, the surroundings created and stimulated 
in their numerous visitors, and the large amount of information 
accorded to personal or corresponding inquirers, are of much greater 
importance in a country where so much is still to be observed and 
discovered. 
Through the recent establishment of the Staats Museum at Pretoria, 
the number of these institutions has been increased to six (Cape Town, 
Graham’s Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Bloemfontein, Pretoria), and 
the growing popularity and increasing number of visitors prove that 
the people of South Africa do take some interest in these matters, and 
wish to be instructed. While some of the institutions advanced at a 
more rapid pace, the oldest and leading one, the South African Museum, 
was unfortunately handicapped in its development by being domiciled 
in one-third of the building, which would hardly be sufficient for a 
systematic and instructive arrangement of all its treasures. 
It is highly gratifying to know that this deplorable state of affairs 
is near its termination. 
The new building is completed, the fixtures are being put up, and 
the transferring of the collections will soon be commenced. Before 
the end of the year the vast amount of material accumulated in the 
cases and vaults of the old building will have been transferred to 
the new home erected in the Gardens. 
The disentanglement of the chaos and the arranging of the 
