OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES. XXVii 
OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES PRESENT AT THE 
DUBLIN MEETING. 
SECTION A.——-MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. 
President.—Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.A. 
Vice-Presidents.—J. C. Adams, F.R.S.; Rev. Professor Graves, Sec. R.I.A.; 
Sir W. R. Hamilton, LL.D., M.R.I.A. ; Rev. George Salmon, D.D., M.R.I.A.; Rev. 
W. Whewell, D.D., F.R.S.; Lord Wrottesley, President of the Royal Society. 
. Secretaries.—Professor Curtis, A.M; Professor Hennessy, M.R.I.A.; P. A 
Ninnis, B.A.; W. J. Macquorn Rankine, F.R.S.; Professor Stevelly, LL.D. 
SECTION B.—CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY, INCLUDING THEIR APPLICATIONS 
TO AGRICULTURE AND THE ARTS. 
President.—Professor Apjohn, M.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.A. 
Vice-Presidents.—Professor T. Andrews, M.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.; Professor E. 
Davy, F.R.S., M.R.LA.; Rev. Wm. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S.; Professor W. A. 
Miller, M.D., F.R.S.; Professor G. Wilson, M.D., F.R.S.E. 
Secretaries.—Dr. Gladstone, F.R.S.; Professor W. K. Sullivan, M.R.I.A.; Dr. 
E. W. Davy, M.R.1.A. 
SECTION C.—GEOLOGY. 
President.—The Lord Talbot de Malahide, President of the Geological Society of 
Dublin. 
Vice-Presidents.—Richard Griffith, LL.D.; Professor Haughton, M.R.I.A., 
F.G.S.; J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S., M.R.I.A.; Thomas Oldham, F.R.S., M.R.1LA.; 
Colonel Portlock, R.E., F.R.S., M.R.I.A. 
Secretaries.—Professor Harkness, F.R.S.; Gilbert Sanders, M.R.I.A.; Robert 
H. Scott, Esq. 
SECTION D.—ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, INCLUDING PHYSIOLOGY. 
President. —Professor William Henry Harvey, M.D., M.R.I.A. 
Vice- Presidents. —Professor G.J.Allman, M.D., F.R.S.,M.R.I.A, ; Professor C.G. 
Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S.; A. H. Halliday, M.R.1A., F.L.S.; Professor Robert Har- 
rison, M.D., M.R.I.A.; W. Ogilby, F.L.S., M.R.I.A.; Sir John Richardson, 
F.R.S. 
Secretaries.—Professor John R. Kinahan, M.B., M.R.I.A.; Edwin Lankester, 
M.D., F.R.S.; Robert Patterson, M.R.I.A.; William Edward Steele, M.D. 
SUB-SECTION D.—PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 
President.—Robert Harrison, M.D., M.R.1.A., Professor of Anatomy and Phy- 
siology, T.C.D. 
Vice-Presidents.—Sir H. Marsh, Bart.,M.R.I.A.; Professor HughCarlile, M.R.I.A.: 
Professor F. C. Faye, Christiania ; Dr. Jacob ; Dr. Laycock, Professor of Practice of 
Medicine, University of Edinburgh; Sir Philip Crampton, Bart., F.R.S., M.R.I.A. 
Secretaries.—Robert D. Lyons, M.B., M.R.I.A.; Professor Redfern. 
SECTION E.—GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. 
President.—Rev. James Henthorn Todd, D.D., Pres. R.I.A. 
Vice-Presidents.—Major-General Chesney, R.A., D.C.L., F.R.S.; John Crawford 
| F.RB.G.S. ; Rear-Admiral R. FitzRoy, F.R.S.; Rev. Edward Hincks, D.D.; Rev. 
_ Charles Wm. Wall, D.D., Vice Provost T.C.D., M.R.I.A.; Wm. R. Wilde, M.R.I.A. 
Secretaries—Richard Cull, F.S.A.; Samuel Ferguson, M.R.I.A.; Richard R. 
Madden, M.D., F.R.C.S, Eng.; Dr. Norton Shaw, Sec. R.G.S. 
SECTION F,—ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. 
_ President.—The Archbishop of Dublin, M.R.I.A. 
_ Vice-Presidents.—Lord Monteagle, F.R.S.; Edwin Chadwick,C.B.; The Recorder 
of Birmingham ; James A.Lawson, Q.C.,LL.D.,M.R.1.A.; Edward Baines, Esq.; John 
- Strang, LL.D.; Wm. Donnelly, LL.D,; F. G. P. Neison, F.S.S,; James R. Napier. 
_ Secretaries.—William Newmarch, F.S,S.; Professor Cairnes, M.R.I.A.; Henry 
Dix Hutton, LL.B. 
q SECTION G.—MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 
 President.—The Earl of Rosse, F.R.S., M.R.LA. 
Vice- Presidents.—George Rennie, F.R.S.; Robert Mallet, M. Inst. C.E., F.R.S., 
M.R.1.A.; Sir John Macneill, F.R.S., M.R.I.A.; John Scott Russell, F.R.S.; 
William Dargan, M.R.I.A. 
Secretaries.—James Thompson, C.E.; William T. Doyne, M. Inst. C.E.; Henry 
Wright ; Professor Downing, LL.D.,M.R.I.A.; AlexanderTate, Secretary Inst.C,E.I. 
