204 The British Association hi South Africa. 
and Johannesburg (August 28th—September 1st). In addition, 
evening lectures were delivered at a number of the chief towns 
visited en route. 
The meetings of Section K were well attended, and though the 
proceedings were not characterised by any startling developments, 
the interest was well sustained throughout. In addition to a fair 
contingent of members from England, local botany was strongly 
represented, and there' were also two distinguished foreign botanists 
present at the meeting, Professor Engler of Berlin, and Professor 
Douglas Campbell of California. 
As was to be expected, the papers communicated to the section 
were considerably fewer than last year, and this enabled afternoon 
sittings to be dispensed with, except in one case to be mentioned 
later. As was fitting upon an occasion of this kind, a considerable 
number of the papers dealt with South African Botany. Another 
feature, which it is to be hoped may become an annual one, was 
the presentation of several general accounts of recent work. 
Discussion of the papers read was too often conspicuous by i'ts 
absence ; this being largely due to the somewhat prevalent habit 
on the part of authors of exceeding the time limit which it is found 
necessary to impose. 
Cape Town. 
At Cape Town the sectional meetings were held in the 
Botanical Department of the South African College. The rooms, 
which have been recently constructed under the direction of 
Professor H. H. W. Pearson, were admirably adapted for the 
purpose, and Professor Pearson is to be congratulated on the 
thoroughly up-to-date and convenient building in which his 
department is housed. 
A word of thanks is due to Dr. Marloth and to Professor 
Pearson, who acted as local secretaries. The arrangements they 
had made were admirable, and contributed in no small measure to 
the success of the meeting. 
In the Committee Room, Dr. Marloth, with the help of Miss 
Kensit, had arranged a most interesting display of living South 
African plants, particularly desert forms from the Karroo and a 
characteristic collection of heaths and other flowers from the South- 
West District of Cape Colony. A number of ecological photographs, 
largely taken by Dr. Marloth himself in different parts of the 
Colony, were also exhibited. 
