Science in South Africa: a Handbook and Review

Abstract

THOSE members of the British Association who were fortunate enough to visit South Africa this year cannot fail to have benefited by this useful and handsome volume. To those who were unable to accompany the association, but who take an interest in scientific work in South Africa, this “index book” will be a great boon. Of late years, South African scientific literature has increased at a great rate, but the material frequently lies scattered in numerous publications often difficult of access, while so many divergent opinions on the same subject have been expressed that the student is apt to be bewildered. From the present volume the status quo of scientific research in South Africa can be ascertained. A long-felt want is thus supplied, and if the scientific literature is to increase at the same rate in the future as it has in the immediate past, a year-book on similar lines would be of inestimable value.

Science in South Africa: a Handbook and Review.

Prepared under the auspices of the South African Governments and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. Edited by the Rev. W. Flint J. D. F. Gilchrist. Pp. x + 489. (Cape Town, Pretoria, and Bulawayo: T. Maskew Miller, 1905.)