600 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



FORTY -FOURTH MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR 

 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



The forty-fourth meeting of the British Association com- 

 menced August 20th at Belfast, Ireland, and continued until 

 the 26th. The attendance was about equal to the average, 

 and many interesting papers were presented. The next meet- 

 ing is to be held at Bristol, beginning on Wednesday, the 

 25th of August, 1875. Sir John Hawkshaw was elected pres- 

 ident ; Mr. W. L. Carpenter and Mr. J. H. Clark, local secre- 

 taries. The meeting for 1876 is to be in Glasgow. 15 A, 

 August 29, 1874, 287. 



PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



London Nature contains the announcement of the forma- 

 tion of a Psychological Society of Great Britain, persons de- 

 sirous of joining it being invited to make application at the 

 office of the Chemical News. This society, we presume, is 

 intended to prosecute investigations into the so-called spirit- 

 ualistic manifestations of which Mr. Crookes makes mention 

 in the January number of the Quarterly Journal of Science. 



THE MANCHESTER AQUARIUM. 



Mr. W. Saville Kent, late superintending naturalist of the 

 Brighton Aquarium, has been appointed to the control of the 

 new aquarium at Manchester. This has been constructed 

 according to Mr. Kent's special ideas on the subject, and 

 promises to be a very decided success. The tank frontage 

 is no less than 750 feet, an amount exceeding that of any 

 aquarium yet constructed. 



Some idea of the popularity of exhibitions of this kind, in 

 cities of the size of Manchester, may be gathered from the 

 fact that 10,000 visitors were registered during the first week 

 of the opening. 12 A, Jane, 1874, 93. 



THE FRENCH MUSEUM OF PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



The establishment of the Conservatoire des Arts et Me- 

 tiers owes its origin to the illustrious Vaucanson, inspector 

 of factories in the reign of Louis XVI., and this magnificent 



