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Excerpt from Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science: Second Meeting, Held at Johannesburg, April, 1904 I have to thank you for the honour done me by electing me as your President, an honour which I feel all the more deeply because I am painfully aware of how little I have been able to do personally by scientific record or research. I can at least assure the members of our Association, whom we welcome here to-night, that I shall always do what I can for the purpose of this Association for the Advancement of Science. Our past President, Sir David Gill, in his inauguratory address at Cape Town last year on the occasion of the first annual meeting of this Association, dealt with it and its history since its inception. The number of ordinary members then on the roll was 702, and the number of associates 32; the number of ordinary mem bers to-day is 913, and that of associates 124. A copy of the report of our last year's meeting has, I trust, reached every one of our members. We have to express our regret that it has come to hand so late. But the work involved in its compilation was arduous in the extreme, and our thanks are due to the Rev. Mr. Flint, who has spent a long period of valuable time on the work. We have to express the thanks of the Association to the Government of the Cape Colony, who generously undertook the cost of the whole printing the reports and papers of last year's meeting, and I think you will agree with me that the production is a handsome as well as a valu able one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.