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in obtaining any pure specimens of their race. White blood is always 
traceable somewhere in the parentage. 
Old people of any intelligence are few, and they alone know anything of 
tribal lore. The Hottentot himself says he has been absorbed into a new 
condition of things, and it takes him all his time to keep abreast of the tide. 
An onlooker sees that he is not keeping abreast, and never will, for all 
his struggle. 
The material for further investigation is thus no longer to be had, and I 
had perforce to be content with the remnants I had been able to gather. On 
some lonely farm, perhaps, an old man or an old woman may still be able to 
add to the collected facts, but the time for further systematic scientific work 
is past. 
Extract from Mr. G. Arnold's Report. 
I applied for the grant so that with its aid I might be able to travel 
to Capetown and Durban, partly to collect the Formicidae of those parts, 
and partly to examine the collections of the South African Museum, and 
to make use of the scientific library of the latter institution, with a view to 
publishing a monograph of the Formicidae of the South African Eegion. 
This monograph will be published in the Annals of the South African 
Museum, and the first part of the work is already in the hands of the 
printers. I shall send you copies of the parts as they appear, to be laid 
before the Society. 
I wish once again to thank the Society for the grant, without which the 
progress of the work would have been greatly delayed. 
