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THE Cape papers, says the Times, report the formation at Cape Town of a “South African Association for the Advancement of Science,” to work as far as possible on the lines of the British Association. In July last a meeting was held to establish a congress of engineers, when an influential committee was appointed. The proposal gradually widened until at length it was found feasible to establish a local “British Association,” and a meeting for. that purpose, held under the chairmanship of Sir David Gill, F.R.S., the Astronomer Royal at the Cape Observatory, was largely attended, and the formation of the Association having, been decided upon by formal vote, the title was discussed, “South African” being carried by 31 votes against 19 for “African.”