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NATURE 



[August 13, 1903 



THE SOUTHPORT MEETING OF THE 

 BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



SINCE the publication of the first article on the 

 approaching meeting of the British Association 

 (July 9, p. 224), the following additional arrangements 

 have been made : — 



Sir George Pilkington will give a garden party to 

 loo members at his residence, Belle Vue, Southport, 

 on Monday, September 14. Mr. William Vernon will 

 give a garden party to 100 members at Wyborne Gate, 

 Birkdale, on Tuesday, September 15. 



An exhibition of meteorological and magnetic instru- 

 ments, diagrams, books, &c., will be held in the labor- 

 atory and lower corridor of the Science and Art Schools, 

 immediately adjoining the reception room. The exhibi- 

 tion, owing to the presence of the International Meteor- 

 ological Committee in Southport, is likely to be of 

 unusual interest. Exhibits are promised by the Royal 

 Observatory, Greenwich ; the Solar Physics Observ- 

 atory ; the Meteorological Office ; Kew Observatory ; 

 the Scottish Meteorological Society; the Royal Meteor- 

 ological Society ; Captain Wilson-Barker ; the Scientific 

 Instrument Co., Cambridge; Mr. W. H. Dines; Prof. 

 Pernter; Dr. A. L. Rotch ; Captain Creak; Dr. Mill; 

 the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford; Mr. C. T. R. 

 Wilson ; Mr. J. Aitken ; Mr. Joseph Baxendell ; and 

 Mr. Halliwell. 



A loan muscurri of objects of local scientific and 

 archaeological interest is being organised. 



The printing of the " Handbook " is now complete. 

 The contents are as follows: — (i) "Southport: 

 Historical and Descriptive"; (2) "Southport as a 

 Health Resort," by Dr. J. J. Weaver and Dr. A. V. 

 Wheeler; (3) "The Meteorology of the Southport 

 District," by Joseph Baxendell; (4) " The Geology of 

 the Southport District," by Harold Brodrick and 

 Edmund Dickson — (a) "The Ribble Estuary," by 

 Edmund Dickson; (5) "The Botany of the District," 

 by W. H. Stansfield and Henry Ball^a) " A note on 

 Hypopitys Monotropa,'' by Henry Ball, (b) "The 

 .Mosses of the District," by J. A. Wheldon, (c) "The 

 Hepaticae of the District," by J. A. Wheldon; (6) 

 Zoology^ — (a) " Protozoa- Foraminifera," by Dr. G. W. 

 Chaster, (b) " Lepidoptera," by F. N. Pierce and 

 J. R. Charnley, (c) " Coleoptera," by Dr. G. W. 

 Chaster and E. J. Burgess Sopp, (d) " Araneae," by Dr. 

 A. R. Jackson, {e) " MoUusca," by Dr. G. W. Chaster, 

 (/) " Marine Fauna and Fisheries," by Prof. W. A. 

 Herdman, F.R.S., and Isaac C. Thompson, (g) "A 

 Note on the Vertebrate Fauna of the District"; (7) 

 "Martin Mere and its Antiquities," by Harold Brod- 

 rick; (8) " Archaeology," by Willis Brunt; (9) " Sketch 

 of the Life and Works of the Rev. Jeremiah Horrocks," 

 by G. Napier Clark. 



The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company will 

 fix a Callendar temperature recorder in the reception 

 room, the instrument being connected electrically with 

 a thermometer suitably exposed to the air outside the 

 building. 



The committee of the British Association appointed 

 at Belfast for the investigation of the upper atmo- 

 sphere by means of kites will, if possible, show the 

 working of the kite apparatus during the meeting of 

 the Association at Southport, in illustration of the ex- 

 periments carried out by Mr. W. H. Dines, under the 

 auspices of the Royal Meteorological Society and of the 

 British Association, with the aid of grants of money 

 from the Association and from the Government 

 Grant Committee of the Royal Society. The com- 

 mittee hoped to have the advantage of the ser- 

 vices of an Admiralty vessel for a sufficient period 

 to_ include the meeting at Southport, for, in com- 

 pliance with the request of the Royal Society, the 



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Lords Commissioners were good enough to assign 

 a vessel for the experiments, but unfortunately she met 

 with an accident at Devonport and sank in the harbour. 

 She is consequently not available. The local committee 

 of the British Association is trying to assist the com- 

 mittee to obtain a steamer for the purpose of carrying 

 out the experiments at Southport. 



The title of Dr. J. S. Flett's lecture to working men 

 on Saturday, September 12, is " Martinique and St. 

 Vincent: the Eruptions of 1902," with lantern 

 illustrations. 



The railway companies, as before stated, will issue 

 tickets to Southport available from September 8 to 18 

 inclusive, but in the case of the Irish railways the 

 tickets will be available from September 7 to 19 

 inclusive. The committees of the principal clubs have 

 agreed to extend the privilege of honorary membership 

 to non-resident members of the Association during the 

 week of the meeting. 



The Saturday afternoon excursion to Hoole and 

 Rufford will take the form of a motor-car run. More 

 than twenty cars have been placed at the disposal of 

 the committee by their owners, and it is hoped that 

 this excursion will be a popular one. Tea will be 

 served at Rufford Old Hall. The excursion to the 

 WIrral Peninsula is specially intended for geologists 

 and botanists, and geological and botanical parties will 

 be formed in connection with the Windermere ex- 

 cursion. 



A specially prepared plan of the town in colours 

 will be inserted in the local programme, and a plan of 

 the Municipal Buildings, where most of the meetings 

 of the Association will be held, will also be included. 



A list of those members who had intimated their 

 intention of being present at the meeting up to July 

 14 has been printed, and can be obtained at the local 

 office. The following names of foreign and American 

 corresponding members, and members of the Inter- 

 national Meteorological Committee, are included in 

 the list : — Prof. G. S. Atkinson, Cornell University, 

 U.S.A. ; Dr. Von. Bebber, Hamburg; Dr. R. Billwiller, 

 Zurich; Prof. Ludwig Boltzmann, Vienna; M. 

 Teisserenc de Bort, Paris ; Captain Chaves, St. Miguel, 

 Azores; Mr. W. Davis, Cordoba, Argentine; Prof. G. 

 Gilron, Louvain ; M. A. Gobert, Brussels; the Comte 

 A. de Gramont, Paris; Prof. Hellman, Berlin; Prof. 

 H. Hergesell, Strassburg ; Prof. H. H. Hilde- 

 brandsson, Upsala ; Prof. Lignler, Caen; Prof. C. 

 Lombroso, Turin ; Dr. T. P. Lotzy, Leyden ; Mr. G. G. 

 MacCurdy, Newhaven, Conn., U.S.A.; Prof. E. 

 Mascart, Paris; Prof. H. Mohn, Christlania ; Prof. 

 Willis Moore, Washington, U.S.A. ; Prof. Simon New- 

 comb, Washington, U.S.A.; Prof. L. Palazzo, Rome; 

 Prof. Paulsen, Copenhagen; Prof. J. M. Pernter, 

 Vienna; Dr. A. L. Rotch, Blue Hill Observatory, 

 Mass., U.S.A.; General Rykatcheff, St. Petersburg; 

 Prof. M. Snellen, Utrecht; Prof. R. H. Thurston, 

 Cornell University, U.S.A.; Dr. H. C. White, Uni- 

 versity of Georgia, U.S.A. ; Prof. E. Zacharias, Ham- 

 burg. 



The Mayor of Southport (Mr. T. T. L. Scarlsbrick) 

 has issued more than a hundred Invitations to members 

 of the Association and to distinguished foreigners who 

 will be present in Southport to a dinner at his resi- 

 dence. Greaves Hall, Banks, on Wednesday, 

 September 16, to meet Sir Norman Lockyer, president 

 of the British Association, and Prof. E. Mascart, presi- 

 dent of the International Meteorol^ical Committee. 



The Southport Literary and Philosophical Society, 

 which was responsible for the preliminary negotiations 

 which resulted In the holding of this year's meeting 

 of the Association at Southport, has arranged to hold 

 the opening meeting of Its winter session on Thurs- 

 day, September 17. On this occasion Prof. A. R. 



