Published under the sanction and at the Offices of The Anti-Slavery & Aborigines Protection Society 51, Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road London, S. W. 92 DEATH OF DR. BOOKER WASHINGTON (with portrait) PARLIAMENTARY: CENTRAL AFRICA (NEUTRAL ZONE); CEYLON LORD BUXTON AND NATIVE EDUCATION HOUSING OF NATIVES IN JOHANNESBURG REVIEW: The Gospel in Futuna 94 97 98 99 COLLECTION Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend. JANUARY, 1916. [The Editor, whilst grateful to all correspondents who may be kind enough to furnish him with information, desires to state that he is not responsible for the views stated by them, nor for questions which may be inserted from other journals. The object of the journal is to spread information, and articles are necessarily quoted which may contain views or statements for which their authors can alone be held responsible.] Thomas Fowell Burton. SINCE the last issue of our Journal our Society has suffered by the death of its much honoured President a very severe blow, and one which was to a large extent unexpected, because owing to Sir Fowell's activity of body. and mind we most of us failed to realize that the President, who kept so closely in touch with the Society's work and attended the monthly Committee meetings so regularly, was verging on fourscore years. Sir Fowell Buxton had presided as usual at the monthly Committee meeting on July 8; in August he wrote from Cromer that his doctor would not permit him to be present, but it was not until later that we learned that he was confined to his room and was not likely to be in London again for some time. Then his letters ceased, and the Secretaries, with whom Sir Fowell kept up frequent correspondence, grew apprehensive that the illness was of a serious character. Subsequently, towards the end of October, came a very grave report, and on the 28th we received the tidings that the President had passed away that morning. To name the dates which connect Sir Fowell Buxton with our Society is easy, but it is very difficult to give an adequate idea of his devoted and ungrudging lifelong service to the cause of Native races, and impossible to compute its value. Sir Fowell first became a member of the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1883, but before this date he had been connected with the Committee of the Aborigines Protection Society and a Vice-President, and apart from his official connexion with the Societies, the records both of the Aborigines Protection Society and the Anti-Slavery Society show that Sir Fowell was in constant request and ever ready to help the Native cause by presiding and speaking at meetings, joining in deputations to ministers, and other similar functions, public and private, which were arranged by one or other Society. In this he followed the example of his father, Sir Edward North Buxton, who himself followed that of his well-known father, the first Baronet, in being at once a member of both the Societies and a constant advocate of the |