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Description:Excerpt from Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, Vol. 4: 1884 1888 It is the fitting custom, in all learned and scientific societies, for the President, at the annual or anniversary meeting, to take stock of what has been e ected or attempted during the past twelve months by the body of which he has been for the time the elected head; and it is not unusual for him on the same occasion to dwell specially on such matters as lie more within his own line of study or research. A modification of this course was adopted by our first President, and has been followed - I think with advantage - by his successors in the chair - cid. To give such a summary of the Society's doings (which are not as yet overwhelming in extent) every second year, and to deliver at the annual meeting of the intervening year an address dealing with some subject connected with the President's personal investigations. In this way the Society gains an additional memoir of a more or less interesting character and the more formal summary of its proceedings is rendered less restricted in its scope. The excellent rule of our Society, that the same person is not eligible as President for more than two years consecutively, lends itself very well to this arrange ment; for it has so happened that, during the eight years of the Society's existence, each of our Presidents has been re-elected for a second year of ofiice, and thus has been able to give both an address on his special department of research at the close of the first year, and one of the more formal and general description at the end of the second year. It will be remembered that our lamented first President, Sir Bartle Frere, chose for the subject of his special address, in 1878, The Native Races of South Africa that his successor, Mr. David Gill, gave us an admirable account of his three years' researches in connection with A Determination of the Distance of the Earth from the Sun; that Mr. Gamble traced for us The Connection between the Direction and Force of the Wind and the Height of the Baro meter and that I had the honour last year of addressing you on a very curious and significant class of facts in the domain of Zoology, rid. The Protective Resemblances and Mimicry in Animals. 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, Vol. 4: 1884 1888 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, Vol. 4: 1884 1888 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, Vol. 4: 1884 1888 It is the fitting custom, in all learned and scientific societies, for the President, at the annual or anniversary meeting, to take stock of what has been e ected or attempted during the past twelve months by the body of which he has been for the time the elected head; and it is not unusual for him on the same occasion to dwell specially on such matters as lie more within his own line of study or research. A modification of this course was adopted by our first President, and has been followed - I think with advantage - by his successors in the chair - cid. To give such a summary of the Society's doings (which are not as yet overwhelming in extent) every second year, and to deliver at the annual meeting of the intervening year an address dealing with some subject connected with the President's personal investigations. In this way the Society gains an additional memoir of a more or less interesting character and the more formal summary of its proceedings is rendered less restricted in its scope. The excellent rule of our Society, that the same person is not eligible as President for more than two years consecutively, lends itself very well to this arrange ment; for it has so happened that, during the eight years of the Society's existence, each of our Presidents has been re-elected for a second year of ofiice, and thus has been able to give both an address on his special department of research at the close of the first year, and one of the more formal and general description at the end of the second year. It will be remembered that our lamented first President, Sir Bartle Frere, chose for the subject of his special address, in 1878, The Native Races of South Africa that his successor, Mr. David Gill, gave us an admirable account of his three years' researches in connection with A Determination of the Distance of the Earth from the Sun; that Mr. Gamble traced for us The Connection between the Direction and Force of the Wind and the Height of the Baro meter and that I had the honour last year of addressing you on a very curious and significant class of facts in the domain of Zoology, rid. The Protective Resemblances and Mimicry in Animals. 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, Vol. 4: 1884 1888 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, Vol. 4: 1884 1888 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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