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advised not to hand in any application or fee, as no 

 guarantee could be given that they would receive one 

 particular ticket. Despite the individual irritation which 

 has been occasioned by an imperfect comprehension of 

 the scheme, and by occasional unwillingness to comply 

 with the conditions, the new arrangement has received 

 a widespread approval, and has formed another instance 

 of the willing and courteous acceptance of the Bradford 

 arrangements, which has so conspicuously characterised 

 the present meeting of the Association. 



Ramsden Bacchus. 



Meetings of the General Committee. 

 At the first meeting of the General Committee, Prof. 

 ^chafer reported that the following resolutions had been 

 considered and acted upon by the Council of the 

 Association. 



I. That in view of ihe opportunities of ethnographical 

 inquiry which will be presented by the Indian census, 

 the Council of the Association be requested to urge the 

 Government of India to make use of the census officeri/ 

 for the purposes enumerated below, and to place photo- 

 graphers at the service of the census officers :—(i) To 

 establish a survey of the jungle races, Bhils, Gonds, and 

 other tribes of the central mountain districts ; (2) to 

 establish a further survey of the Naga, Kuki, and other 

 cognate races of the Assam and Burmese frontiers ; (3) 

 to collect further information about the vagrant and 

 criminal tribes, Haburas, Beriyas, Sansiyas, &c., in North 

 and Central India ; (4) to collect physical measurements, 

 particularly of the various Dravidian tribes, in order to 

 determine their origin ; and of the Rajputs and Jats of 

 Rajputana and the Eastern Punjab, to determine their 

 relation with the Yu-echi and other Indo-Scythian races ; 

 (5) to furnish a series of photographs of typical specimens 

 of the various races, of views of archaic industries, and of 

 other facts interesting to ethnologists. 



II. That the Council be requested to represent to Her 

 Majesty's Government the importance of giving more 

 prominence to botany in the training of Indian forest 

 officers. 



A resolution was adopted, that in future women should 

 be eligible as members of the Sectional Committees. 



.■\t the second meeting of the General Committee it 

 was decided that the meeting of the Association in 1902 

 should be held in Belfast. The meeting next year will 

 be held in Glasgow, with Prof. A. W. Riicker as president, 

 and will commence on Wednesday, September 11, 1901. 

 The vice-presidents for the meeting will be : The Earl of 

 Glasgow, Lord Blythswood, Lord Kelvin, the Lord 

 Provost of Glasgow, the Principal of the University of 

 Glasgow, Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, MP., Sir Andrew 

 Noble, Sir Archibald Geikie, Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 

 Mr. James Parker Smith, M.P., Mr. John Inglis, and 

 Mr. Andrew Stewart. Alluding to the arrangements for 

 the Glasgow meeting, the Lord Provost of Glasgow said 

 the University had been placed at the disposal of the 

 Association, and all the Sections will probably be accom- 

 modated under one roof There will also be an exhibi- 

 tion in Glasgow next year, and the 450th anniversary of the 

 University will be celebrated. 



Prof Schiifer has retired from his position as one of 

 the general secretaries, and Dr. D. H. Scott has been 

 elected his successor. 



The following is a synopsis of the grants of money 

 appropriated to scientific purposes by the General 

 Committee : — 



Mathematics and Physics. 



•Rayleigh, Lord — Electrical Standards 45 



*Iudd, Prof. J. W. — Seismological Observations 75 



•Riicker, Prof. A. W. — Magnetic Force on board Ship 



(renewed) 10 



• Re-appointed. 



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Chemistry. 

 Hartley, Prof. W. N. — Relation between Absorption £ 

 Spectra and Constitution of Organic Substances 



(balance, ;^6 8j. ga'. in hand) — 



*Roscoe, Sir H. E.— Wave-length Tables ... ... S 



*Miers, Prof. H. A. — Isomorphous Sulphonic Derivatives 

 of Benzene 35 



Geology. 



*Hull, Prof. E.— Erratic Blocks (;^6 in hand) — 



*Geikie, Prof. J. — Photographs of Geological Interest 



(balance, ;^io in hand) — 



*Lloyd-Morgan, Prof C. — Ossiferous Gives at Uphill 



(renewed) ... 5 



•Watts, Prof. W. W. — Undierground Water of North- 



West Yorkshire 5° 



*Scharff, Dr. — Exploration of Irish Caves (renewed) ... 15 

 *Marr, Mr. J. E. — Life-zones in British Carboniferous 



Rocks 2 



Zoology. 



*Herdman, Prof. W. A.— Table at the Zoological Station, 



Naples 100 



* Bourne, Mr. G. C— Table at the Biological Laboratory, 



Plymouth 20 



•Woodward, Dr. H.— Index Generum et Specierum 



Animalium... ... ... ... ... ... •■• 75 



•Newton, Prof. A. — Migration of Birds ... 10 



Poulton, Prof E. B.— Life-history of the Marble Gall-fly — 



Geography. 



Keltie, Dr. J. Scott — Terrestrial Surface Waves ... 5 



Mill, Dr. H. R. — Changes of Land-level in the Phlegrcean 



Fields 50 



Economic Science and Statistics. 



•Giffen, Sir R. — State Monopolies in other Countries 



{£i'i 13s. 6d. in hand) ... — 



Brabrook, E. W. — Legislation regulating Women's Labour 15 



Mechanical Science. 



•Preece, Mr. W. H. — Small Screw Gauge (balance in 



hand) and... ... ... ... ... ... ... 45 



Binnie, Sir A. — Resistance of Road Vehicles to Traction 75 



Anthropology. 



•Evans, Mr. A. J. — Silchester Excavation 



•Penhallow, Prof. D. P. — Ethnological Survey of Canada 

 Garson, Dr. J. G. — Age of Stone Circles (balance in 



hand) 



•Read, Mr. C. H. — Photographs of Anthropological 



Interest (balance of ;[^io in hand) 



*Tylor, Prof. G. B. — Anthropological Teaching 



Evans, Sir John. — Exploration in Crete 



Corresponding Societies. 

 •Whitaker, Mr. W. — Preparation of Report 



* Re-appointed. 



Physiology. 

 *Schafer, Prof. E. A. — Physiological Effects of Peptone... 30 

 Schafer, Prof E. A. — Chemistry of Bone Marrow ... 15 

 Starling, Prof. E. H. — Suprarenal Capsules in the 

 Rabbit 5 



Bota7ty. 



•Farmer, Prof J. B. — Fertilisation in Phreophyceit ... 15 

 Marshall Ward, Prof — Morphology, Ecology, and 

 Taxonomy of Podostemacece .. ... ... ... 20 



.. 15 

 £9AS 



