INTRODUCTION. 



SECTION BIOLOGY. 



P? esident : 



Professor J. Burdon Sanderson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Vice-Presidents : 



Dr. G. J. Allman, F.R.S. 



M. le Professeur Van Beneden, 



F.R.S. 

 Herr Professor Cohn. 



Herr Professor Dr. Donders, 

 F.R.S. 



Professor Michael Foster, M.A., 

 M.D., F.R.S. 



Colonel Lane Fox. 

 Herr Professor Ewald Hering. 

 Dr. Hooker, C.B., P.R.S. 

 M. le Professeur Marey. 

 Professor Rolleston, M.D., F.RS. 



SECTION-PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, MINING, 

 AND METEOROLOGY. 



President : 

 Mr. John Evans, F.R.S. 



Vice- Presidents : 

 Herr Professor Dr. Beyrich. 



M. Daubree, Directeur de 1'Ecole 

 des Mines, Paris. 



His Excellency Dr. Von Dechen. 

 M. le Professeur Dewalque. 



Mr. H. S. Eaton, President of 

 the Meteorological Society. 



M. le Professeur Dr. Forel. 



Mr. N. Story-Maskelync, M.A., 

 F.R.S. 



Professor Ramsey, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Major-General Sir H. Rawlinson, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S. 



Mr. W. Warington Smyth, M.A., 

 F.R.S. 



The Baron Ferdinand 

 Wransrell. 



Von 



A central room in the range of buildings in which the collections 

 were displayed was assigned for the purposes of the Conferences, and 

 the first, that on Physics, was held on the i6th May. The Right Hon. 

 Viscount Sandon, M.P., Vice-President of the Committee of Council 

 on Education, took the chair at the commencement of the opening 

 meeting. 



His Lordship expressed his great regret that, owing to the special 

 pressure of official business which the Education Bill entailed upon him, 

 it would be impossible for him to attend the Conferences and even on 

 that occasion, to do more than convey the assurance of his own gratitude 

 and that of Her Majesty's Government, to the men of science all over 



