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THE twenty-fourth annual meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science took place at Pretoria on July 5—10, 1926, under the presidency of Dr. E. T. Mellor. The meeting was very well attended, and 129 papers were read. Joint meetings of several sections were held. A popular lecture was given by the Hon. J. H. Hofmeyr, Administrator of the Transvaal, on “The Romance of Ægean Archaeology.” There was a reception by the Mayor and Mayoress of Pretoria, a conversazione by the Pretoria branch of the South African Biological Society, and visits to various places of scientific interest in the neighbourhood.
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The Pretoria Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. Nature 119, 67–68 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119067a0
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