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ASSOCIATIONS FOR TUB ADVANCEMENT OP SCIENCE. 



Popular Feature*. on the evening of Sept. 

 12 awirfc was given in the Ipswich M 

 under tin- auspices of the Ipswich Scientific 

 Societyand (lie SutTolk Institute of An 1m 

 A discourse on "Magnetism in Rotation" was 

 delivered on the evening of Sept. \:\ I.y Pr,.f. 



M P. Thompson. Saturday. Sept. 1 : 

 devoted to excursions; these included whole- 

 day excursions to Southwold ;.nd <\ford and 

 hnlf-d: ions to Bury St. Kdmunds to 



Helmingham Hall, and to Wenhatn Hall and 



Hadley. The lecture to w.rkingmen was on 

 id was delivered on Saturday oven- 

 ing by Dr. Alfred Fison. "The Work of Pas- 

 tour and its Various Developments" was the 



,.f the second evening discourse, given by 



l-'rankland. on the Uiih. 



Among the foreign scientific men attending 

 the meeting were Frederick P.edell. ,,r Cornell 

 University, Itha--... N. Y.J C, I'!. Curry. ..f Mu- 

 nich: A. P. N. Krancliiinoiit.tif Levden : UuMave 

 Gilson, of Louvain; othniel ( '. Harsh, of Yale 

 ("niver-ity. New I la\ -en. < 'oiin. : Dr. <Mto Maas, 

 of Munich; Prof. Pax-hen. Ol 

 Remsen. of .Johns Hopkins rniver>ity. P.alti- 

 inoiv. Md.: Dr. van Hijckevorsel, of Rotterdam ; 

 Prof, l; and Dr. T. M. Tivub. 



of Huit.-n7.org, Java, 



Mteiidance and liraiiK Ai tin- meeting 

 of the (Jcneral Council, held on Sept. 18, the 

 treasurer reported an attendance of 1,324 ier- 

 sons, of whom 31 were new annual members 

 and 498 were associates. The receipts were 

 1,236, of which 1,160 were distributed among 

 the sections in grants for research as follow: 

 Mathematics and physics, 250 ; chemistry, 80; 

 geology, 140; zoSlogv, 405 ; geography, 10 ; 

 mechanical science, 40; anthropology, 180; 

 physiology, 25; and corresponding societies, 

 80. According te " Nature*: "Coming after 

 the Oxford year, the meeting in Ij^wi -i. 

 nnmlKTS comparatively small; but from a sci- 

 entific point of view everything augurs well." 



Next Meeting. The association will meet 

 in 1896, in Liverpool, beginning on Sept. 16. 

 The invitation to meet in Toronto, Canaa a, in 

 1897 was renewed, and was unanimously ac- 

 cepted. An invitation from Bournemouth was 

 received for 1898. Sir Joseph Lister, eminent 

 as the father of antiseptic surgery, who is for- 

 eign secretary of the Koyal Society, was ap- 



d as president-elect for the meeting in 

 Liverpool in 1896. Besides the election of the 

 vice-presidents named for that meeting, the re- 

 election of the general secretary, the assistant 

 general secretary, the treasurer,* and the ordi- 

 nary members of the council then took place. 



\ iMralaHian. The sixth annual meeting of 

 the Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science was held in Brisbane, ( t > 

 land, beginning on Jan. 11 and ending on Jan. 

 18, with excursions on Jan. 10, 21, and 23. The 

 officers of the meeting were as follow: Presi- 



A. C. Gregory. Sec:>n Pr^idents: A, 



noray, Mathematics, and Physics, Alex- 

 ander McAulay; I',. Chemistry, .1. H. Maiden: 

 C f Geology and Mineralogy, f . W. Edge worth 

 I>avid: I). Biology, Arthur D<ndy: K. Geogra- 

 phy. Baron F. von Mueller: K. Kthnology and 

 Anthropolojnr, Thomas Worsnop; G t Economic 

 Science and Agriculture, W. Scott ; H, Engineer- 



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 to bttman knowledge. AM Cray ban com- 

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