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this year down to 1883 the chair of the section was 

 occupied by representatives of the various depart- 

 ments in sequence, and the departments, or one or 

 other of them, had chairmen of their own as well. 

 In 1884 anthropology became the subject of a sepa- 

 rate section (H), in 1893 physiology did the same 

 (Section I), and in 1895 Section D became what it is 

 now, Zoology, while Section K appears as that of 

 Botany. Section I included with physiology the 

 subject of experimental psychology, until in 1921 

 Psychology was allowed to hive off as Section J. 

 (See p. 74.) 



Section L, Educational Science, was born in 1901. 

 Section M, that of Agriculture, was established in 

 1912. The subject had for some years previously 

 been dealt with in a subsection attached to various 

 biological sections in turn. This method is some- 

 thing of a makeshift ; it does not remove one of the 

 objections which is always urged against the forma- 

 tion of a new section that it lays upon the place 

 of meeting the onus of providing an additional 

 meeting-room, and that the demands made by the 

 Association upon such accommodation are in any 

 event very heavy. There is, however, no record of a 

 section once formed being afterwards disbanded, so 

 that all may be taken to have justified their establish- 

 ment at least in the view of their own supporters. 

 And in regard to agricultural science, it may be 

 observed that as early as 1839 a petition bearing 

 influential signatures was presented to the General 

 Committee requesting the establishment of a section 

 to deal with that subject, but was rejected. 



The constitution of Section A, the wide scope of 

 which has already been indicated, was brought under 



