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lopment. It is a wonderful confirmation of that splendid and spiritual Pan-African archaeology which has led to this international congress in the service of scientific travel."
Gen. Smuts's Interest
Professor C. va, Riet Lowe, Director of Archaeology Survey of the Union of South Africa, Professor of Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand and a member of the Historical Monuments Commission replied on behalf of South Africa. 
He said :
"It is my privilege on behalf of the fifteen South African delegates from the Union of South Africa. Southern Rhodesia and Bechuanaland, to thank you warmly not only for your welcome but also for having invited us to attend this important Congress. We appreciate your support and interest as we appreciate the welcome and hospitality with which we were met immediately we set foot on your soil. 
"My only regret is that circumstances prevented the Prime Minister of the Union from leading our delegation. But for the opening of Parliament in Cape Town this week and the impending visit of the Royal Family to the Union, General Smuts would personally have led the South African delegation. Only last week he asked me to tell you how much he regrets his inability to be here and to convey his personal gratitude to you and to your Government for your helpful interest and material support. He also asked me to bring his best wishes for a successful meeting and at the same time he expressed the hope that this would merely be the first congress of its kind and that the next would be held in the Union of South Africa. 
"With me he believes that Africa is destined to play a pre-eminent part in any attempt that may be made to reconstruct the history of man's humble beginning and subsequent rise to control the animal kingdom; and with me he believes that no man can fully appreciate the trend of human development and his essential wholeness unless he is aware of the course he has already run. As the greatest length of this course lies in prehistoric times the study of prehistory and the holding of such a Congress as this assume greater significance and dignity. 
92 Years' Research

Revision: Congrès de Nairobi 54 (#54)

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