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and Ireland," by Romilly Allen ; " Ancient Metal 

 Implements from Egypt, and the Discoveries of 

 Dr. Flinders Petrie and Mr. Bliss at Tel-el- 

 Heyi," by J. H. Gladstone; "Morphological 

 Characters of the Abyssinians," by J. G. Garson ; 

 "Ethnographical Notes relating to the Congo 

 Tribes," by Herbert Ward ; " Head Form of the 

 Dards and of the Siah Post Kafirs," by John 

 Beddoe ; " Manners and Customs of the Primi- 

 tive Indians of America," by Miss J. M. Welch ; 

 "Australian Natives," by Miss J. A. Fowler; 

 " On the Structure of Lake Dwellings," by Rob- 

 ert Munro ; " The Prehistoric Evolution of The- 

 ories of Punishment, Revenge, and Atonement," 

 by G. Hartwell Jones ; and " The Mad Head," 

 by Crochley Clapham. Besides the foregoing, 

 reports of various section committees were re- 

 ceived and acted on. These included report of 

 the Anthropometric Laboratory Committee, re- 

 port of the Physical Deviations Committee, re- 

 port of the committee to make an ethnological 

 survey of the United Kingdom, report of the 

 Abyssinian Committee, report of the Uniformity 

 in Spelling Committee, and report of the North- 

 western Tribes of Canada Committee. 



Popular Features of the Meeting. On 

 the evening of Sept. 15 a popular lecture on 

 " Flame " was delivered by Prof. Arthur Smith- 

 ells, of Leeds, and on the following evening 

 one on " Spontaneous Combustion " was deliv- 

 ered by Prof. Vivian Lewes, while on the even- 

 ing of Sept. 18 Prof. Victor Horsley lectured on 

 " The Discovery of the Physiology of the Nerv- 

 ous System." Other entertainments included a 

 reception by Sir John Turner at Mapperley, one 

 by the Mayor in Castle Museum building, a gar- 

 den party by Lord Middleton at Wollaton Hall, 

 and on Saturday, Sept. 16, excursions were pro- 

 vided for to Sherwood Forest, Haddon Hall, 

 Buxton, Burleigh, Southwell, Minster, Lincoln, 

 Belvoir Castle, and Donnington Park. On As- 

 sociation Sunday many of the local pulpits were 

 occupied by the distinguished scientists at the 

 meeting, including the Bishop of Southwell, 

 Rev. Robert Hartley, Rev. Dr. Bonney, and 

 others. At the close of the meeting extended 

 excursions were provided for those who cared to 

 indulge in them. An innovation in the shape of 

 a special performance of " Pharaoh," by Wilson 

 Barrett and his company, to which the members 

 of the association were invited by the local com- 

 mittee, was one of the events of the meeting. A 

 novel but valuable feature of the meeting was 

 the collection of apparatus and exhibits in the 

 physical and chemical departments of the Uni- 

 versity College. Manufacturing firms sent their 

 newest apparatus, and private owners lent many 

 objects of scientific interest. 



Attendance and Grants. The attendance 

 was considerably less than that reached at the 

 Edinburgh meeting; only 1,661 members were 

 enrolled as present, and the receipts were but 

 1,653. As the grants for research are depend- 

 ent upon this collection, they were correspond- 

 ingly less than those of last year, and as approved 

 by the General Committee amounted to 705, 

 distributed as follow : Electrical standards, 25 ; 

 meteorological photograph% 10 ; mathematical 

 tables, 15; solar radiation, 15; national phys- 

 ical laboratory, 5 ; wave-length tables, 10 ; 

 iron and steel analysis, 15 ; action of light on 



dyed colors, 5 ; erratic blocks, 15 ; fossil phyl- 

 lopoda, 5; geological photographs, 10; shell- 

 bearing deposits at Clara, etc., 20 ; eurypterids 

 of the Pentland Hills, 5 ; sections of Honesfield 

 slate, 25; earth tremors, 50; exploration of 

 Calf Hole Cave, 5 ; Naples zoological station, 

 100; Plymouth zoological station, 15; zool- 

 ogy of Sandwich Islands, 100; zoology of Irish 

 Sea, 40; structure of mammalian heart, 10; 

 climatology of tropical Africa, 10 ; observations 

 in South Georgia, 50 ; exploration in Arabia, 

 30 ; economic training, 10 ; anthropometric 

 statistics, 5 ; ethnography of United Kingdom, 

 10; the Glastonbury village, 40; anthro- 

 pometry in schools, 5 ; mental and physical 

 condition of children, 20; and corresponding 

 societies, 25. 



Next Meeting. As decided last year, the 

 Association will meet in 1894 on Aug. '8, in Ox- 

 ford. For 1895 invitations were received from 

 Toronto, Canada, Bournemouth, and Ipswich, 

 which were duly discussed, and a final decision 

 was reached for Ipswich. The application 

 from Toronto was favorably regarded, and its 

 acceptance in the near future is extremely 

 probable. The Marquis of Salisbury was nomi- 

 nated as president for the Oxford meeting, and 

 among the claims mentioned in his favor for 

 that place were the facts that he was " a true 

 man of science, a member of the council of the 

 Royal Society, and Chancellor of the University 

 of Oxford." The General Committee reappoint- 

 ed Sir Douglas Galton and Vernon Harcourt 

 general secretaries, G. Griffith assistant secretary, 

 and Dr. A. W. Riicker general treasurer. 



Australasian. The fifth annual meeting of 

 the Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science was held in Adelaide, South 

 Australia, during the week beginning on Sept. 

 25, 1892. The officers were as follow : President, 

 Ralph Tate. Section Presidents : A, Astronomy, 

 Mathematics, Physics, H. C. Russell ; B, Chem- 

 istry, C. N. Hake ; Geology and Mineralogy, Sir 

 James Hector; D, Biology, C. W. De Vis; E, 

 Geography, A. C. Macdonald ; F, Ethnology and 

 Anthropology, Rev. S. Ella; G, Economic Sci- 

 ence and Agriculture, H. C. L. Anderson : H, 

 Engineering and Architecture, J. R. Scott ; I, 

 Sanitary Science and Hygiene, A. Mault ; J, 

 Mental Science and Education, Henry Laurie. 

 Permanent Secretary. Archibald Liversidge. 

 General Treasurer, H. C. Russell. 



Opening Session. The first business meeting 

 was held on Sept. 26, at the University of Ade- 

 laide, when the arrangements effected by the local 

 committee were accepted ; also, new officers were 

 elected and preliminary arrangements made for 

 the next meeting, to be held in Brisbane. It was 

 further agreed that in 1896 the meeting should be 

 held in Sydney, New South Wales. Various other 

 matters pertaining to the njanagement of the as- 

 sociation were discussed and acted on. The first 

 general session was held in the town hall, on the 

 evening of Sept. 26, when Sir James Hector, a 

 past president (1891), called the meeting to order, 

 and on behalf of Sir Robert Hamilton, president 

 of the previous meeting, who was not present, 

 inducted as his successor Prof. Ralph Tate. An 

 address of welcome from the Mayor was then re- 

 ceived and acknowledged, after which the inau- 

 gural address of the new president was delivered. 



