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AFRICA AND SCIENCE i CONGRESS OF ASSOCIATION CAPETOWN, 23rd July. The delegates to the conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science were given a formal civic welcome this morning. This afternoon there was a brilliant gathering at the City Hall, when the Governor-General, the Earl of Athlone, welcomed the visitors on behalf of the Union. After the installation of Sir Thomas H. Holland ns president of the association, Mr J. H. I-lofmeyr delivered the inaugural address. He traced the development of science in South Africa since the association’s first visit in lnn.i. Mr Hofmeyr then outlined South Africa’s possible contributions to the cause of Science, specially dwelling on the unique advantages astronomy and the meteorological sciences can enjoy. Anthropologically, he declared, Africa gave splendid promise of verifying Darwin’s belief in this continent as the scene of nature’s greatest creative effort—man.
Africa also offered tho richest opportunities of investigation into the contact, of races of different colours and stages of civilisation. The speaker described Africa . as offering a perpetual challenge to science to unravel her past. Science, he said, must make Africa safe for the white man to live in.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 5 August 1929, Page 5
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