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sation against her sex. If Professors would instruct ladies on the 
habits of these birds, and let them know that the birds were killed 
when tending their young, no lady, she was sure, would wear the 
feathers in question. Several members spoke in support of the 
proposition for a “close season.” 
GEOGRAPHY AND Erunonogy. (Section HE.) 
Under the able presidency of Captain Richards, R.N., F.B.S., 
hydrographer to the Admiralty, Section E met in St. Peter’s Hall 
on four days,—Thursday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday. Saturday 
was a dies non, owing to the excursions. Including the Presi- 
dent’s address, there were in all twenty-two communications made 
to the Section, and a large proportion of them were from persons 
who have attained much distinction as travellers or scientific geo- 
eraphers, or both. The meeting of 1868 was destitute of the 
personal interest which has attached to many former meetings of the 
British Association, more especially in the Geographical Section, on 
account of the decease of Mr. John Crawfurd, and of the absence 
through illness of Sir Roderick Murchison. Mr. Crawfurd, notwith- 
standing his great age,—he was an octogenarian at his death,—had 
of late years contributed so largely to the business of this Section, 
both by his papers and his remarks in the discussions, that for some 
years to come his familiar form and cheery voice will be missed 
by the members who take a special interest in the geographical 
proceedings of the Association. His old friend and associate, 
Sir Roderick Murchison, still survives him; but even he is so 
fast approaching octogenarianism that he cannot be expected to 
make much further active exertion in the business of the British 
Association. 
The meetings of the geographers in St. Peter’s Hall were not 
wholly destitute of “lions,” for there were present two of the most 
distinguished of the Abyssinian captives, Dr. H. Blanc and Mr. 
Rassam. ‘The subjects discussed in this Section were more exclu- 
sively geographical than has been the case at some former meetings. 
Those that partook more of an ethnological character were taken up 
in the International Congress of Pre-historic Archeology, the fourth 
annual meeting of which was held this year at Norwich, under the 
presidency of Sir John Lubbock, simultaneously with the thirty- 
eighth meeting of the British Association, Henceforth the term 
“ Ethnology” will not be continued in the title of Section E, a reso- 
lution to that effect having been passed by the General Committee, 
in accordance with a recommendation from the Council of the 
Association. Section D (Biology) will probably, in subsequent 
years, as at Nottingham in 1866, undergo fission, so that there may 
