396 REPORT ON THE CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES HELD AT HAVRE. 



held, but were very poorly attended, as the political outlook was 

 more and more threatening and many members were called away 

 and left hurriedly. 



On Saturday, August 1st, most presidents and secretaries of 

 Sections had gone and only a very few meetings took place. On 

 that morning at the Zoological Section I read a short paper 

 in French on " Pedalion or Pedalia, a Question of Nomenclature 

 in the Class Potifera." About midday a Government announce- 

 ment or " Decret " was placarded at the Town Hall and at 

 Post Offices ordering a general mobilisation of the French Army,, 

 to commence at midnight, when the Congress broke up. 



I left Havre the same night by steamer for Southampton r 

 where I arrived on Sunday morning, about three hours late, the 

 boat having been held up several times in the Channel by 

 torpedo-boats. Thus ended a most tragic meeting of a Congress 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



(Signed) Charles F. Pousselet. 



Journ. Quekett Microscopical Club, Ser. 2, Vol. XII., No. 75, November 1914. 



