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RECENTLY in these columns, accounts have been given of the formation of philosophical societies in two British Colonies in Africa. In Uganda there exists such a body which is well established, both in terms of years and activity of membership. The Uganda Society, a non-racial, cultural and scientific society, was reborn in its present form in 1933 through the inspiration of Mr. E. J. Wayland, then director of the Geological Survey, and Mr. (now Sir) Ralph Hone, then attorney-general in Uganda. Its transactions are published in the Uganda Journal (Oxford University Press) and include a range of subjects embracing ethnology, archaeology, geology and local history. The Society has sponsored two major publications, namely: “A Guide to the Snakes of Uganda", by Captain C. R. S. Pitman ; and ”Uganda Memories", by Sir Albert Cook. Other books are in course of publication. The present membership of this Society, which it is hoped to increase further, is now more than seven hundred. The officers for 1949 are: President, Dr. Goronwy ap Griffith ; Vice-President, Rev. Father F. B. Gaffney ; Editor, Mr. W. V. Harris ; Librarian, Mrs. Barbara Saben ; Hon. Secretary, Mr. J. Addington ; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. C. W. Stuart. The address of the Society is P.O. Private Bag, Kampala, Uganda.
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Uganda Society. Nature 164, 97 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164097c0
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