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The British Association. 



A public meeting, convened by the Lord Mayor (Mr. Otto Jaffa J. P.), 

 was held on Sept. nth, in the Council Chamber at the City Hall, for the 

 purpose of considering the desirability of inviting the British Association 

 to visit Belfast. The Lord Mayor presided. The Lord Mayor said he 

 thought it hardly required words of his to emphasize the pleasure of the 

 citizens of Belfast at the fact of a requisition for that meeting having been 

 served upon him. They would heartily welcome the British Association 

 if they selected that city for their place of meeting in 1901 or 1902. The 

 Earl of Shaftesbury moved the following resolution: — "That we, the 

 citizens of Belfast, assembled in town meeting, duly convened by the 

 Lord Mayor, and held on the nth September, 1899, hereby invite the 

 members of the British Association to meet in Belfast at an early date, 

 and we desire that this invitation be conveyed to the British Association 

 at its forthcoming meeting in Dover by the following deputation : — 

 The Lord Mayor, Professor Fitzgerald, Godfrey W. Ferguson, William 

 Gray, M.R.I A. ; Professor Morton, Professor Symington, Alex Tate, C.E. ; 

 J. Smyth, C.E. ; Professor Thompson, and Thomas Workman. J. P. ; with 

 power to add to their number." Mr. Samuel Young, M.P. seconded the 

 resolution, which was supported by Mr. Win. Johnston, M.P., and the 

 Right Honourable Thomas Sinclair, and the resolution was then put to the 

 meeting, and carried unanimously. Rev. Dr Hamilton moved : — "That 

 the following local executive committee be appointed to carry out the 

 resolution of this meeting — The Lord Mayor, the President of Queen's 

 College, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, the President of 

 the Trades Council, the Presidents and Secretaries of the Natural History 

 and Philosophical Society, the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club and the 

 Ulster Medical Society, with Sir William Q. Ewart, Bart. ; Sir James 

 Musgrave, Bart.; Sir James Henderson, Right Honourable W. J. Pirrie, 

 Right Honourable Thomas Sinclair, Professor Fitzgerald, Professor 

 Symington, Professor Thompson, and Messrs. John Brown, Samuel 

 Davidson, John Horner, William Swanston, F.G S. ; John Vinycomb, 

 M.R.I.A. ; and Alexander G. Wilson, with power to add to their number, 

 Professor Fitzgerald being convener." Sir William Q. Ewart, Bart., 

 seconded and Sir James Henderson supported the resolution. Mr. Alex. 

 Tate said, as a member of the British Association for fort}' years, he would 

 like to express his sympathy with the movement. The resolution was 

 unanimously carried. Lord Shaftesbury having taken the second chair. 

 Mr. Thomas Workman moved, and Dr- J. A. Lindsay seconded a vote of 

 thanks to the Lord Mayor for presiding. The meeting then terminated. 



We understand that at the Dover meeting, just concluded, the Belfast 

 deputation presented a cordial invitation to the Association for 1902, 

 while Professor Hartog spoke strongly on behalf of Cork. The 

 claims of the rival Irish cities will be decided at Bradford next year. 

 At any rate we rejoice to thiftk that the Parliament of Science is soon 

 again to meet on this side of St. George's CI annel. 



