Abstract
THE report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science (Cape Town, 1907), a hand some volume of 640 pages, affords striking evidence of theliwrge amount of attention that is being devoted to scientific research in South Africa. The report includes the presidential address delivered by Mr. T. Reunert at Johannesburg in 1905, in which year the usual sectional meetings were not held, and minutes of the proceedings of the fourth meeting of the association at Kimberley in 1906. The address of the president, Mr. G. F. Williams who was unable to attend the Kimberley meeting in 1906, yorld, contains an interesting historical sketch of the settlement of the Cape, of the adventurous spirit of the of the influence of the Dutch pioneers and of the rush of adventurers from almost every part of the world, the foundation of the mining induitfry of to-day.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
The South African Association . Nature 76, 424–425 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076424a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/076424a0