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Section F. 



The followinja^ have sigriified their intention of beinj,' 

 present: — Prof. Dietzel, Bonn; M. Yves Guyot, Paris; 

 Dr. Korosi, Budapest; Prof. Lotz, Munich; Prof. 

 Alahaim, Lieg^e ; Dr. Mandello, Budapest; Dr. Pierson, 

 the Ha.tjue. 



The following papers have been arranged in con- 

 nection with this section : — Prof. FIu.k, on improve- 

 ments in agriculture and their effect on economic rent ; 

 Prof. Edgeworth, a moot point in the theory of inter- 

 national trade. Friday, August ig, will be devoted to a 

 discussion on the theorv and practice of foreign trade at 

 home and abroad. Contributions will be made bv Prof. 

 Dietzel, Prof. Lotz, M. Yves Guyot, and L. L. Price. 

 It is hoped that most of the leading English economists 

 will be present. On Monday Mrs. Bosanquet will read 

 a paper on the economic importance of the family, and 

 there will possibly be a communication on cotton-grow- 

 ing in the Empire. In the afternoon of Friday, .\ugust 

 i(), some members of the section will visit the Garden 

 City near Hitchin. .\mong other papers mav be men- 

 tioned those by J. .\. Baines, distribution of rural popu- 

 lation in India; T. C. Horsfall and .Mrs. Fisher, on the 

 housing question, and possibly a communication on 

 some allied questions by His Excellency Dr. Pierson. It 

 is expected that the programme will include the follow- 

 ing additional items : — Prof. Mahaim, changes in 

 Belgian wages ; .A. L. Bowley, measurement of national 

 progress; C. J. Hamilton, trade unions in the United 

 .States of .America ; H. A. Roberts, employment of 

 graduates; and \\'. G. .Adams, modification of the 

 income tax. 



Section G. 



Prof. Schroter, of iMunich, is expected to attend the 

 meeting. After the presidential address the most im- 

 portant items of the programme are a discussion on 

 internal combustion engines, opened bv Mr. C. Dugald 

 (Tark and Prof. B. Hopkinson. On Thursdav after- 

 noon Mrs. .Ayrton will give a lecture on the origin of 

 sand-ripples, illustrated by experiments which were 

 recently shown at a conversazione at the Royal Society. 

 On Monday, .August 22, papers will be read by C. H. 

 Merz on the use of electricity on the North-Eastern 

 Railway and on Tyneside ; A'. A. Campbell Swinton, 

 electricity from water-power; \\'. M. Morley and .A. G. 

 Hansard, energy losses in magnetising "iron; Prof. 

 J. .\. Fleming, large bulb incandescent lamps as 

 secondary standards of light. The following communi- 

 cations have been arranged for Tuesdav, .August 23 : — ■ 

 Major Sir Hanbury Brown, K.C.M.G., on the Nile 

 irrigation problem; J. H. Wicksteed, a universal test- 

 ing-machine of 300 tons for full-sized members of struc- 

 tures ; S. Cowper Coles, a new process for applving zinc 

 to metallic surfaces; J. W. Hayward, the effects of 

 receiver drop in a compound engine. 



Section H. 



The guests who have accepted the invitation to attend 

 connected with this section include Prof. Deussen, of 

 Kiel; Mr. Howitt, .Australia ; Prof. Kabbadles, .Athens; 

 Prof. Montelius, Stockholm ; Prof. Schmidt, Copen- 

 hagen ; and Dr. R. Livi, Rome. 



The address of the president (Mr. Henry Balfour) will 

 be delivered on Thursday at 10.30, and will deal with the 

 theory of evolution in the material arts, as expounded 

 by the late General Pitt-Rivers, and illustrated in the 

 Pitt-Rivers Museum at Oxford. The same subject will 

 be pursued by Prof. Montelius, of Stockholm, in a 

 study of the evolution of the lotus-ornament, by Prof. 

 Flinders Petrie in regard to the series of Roman lamps 

 discovered in this season's excavations at Ekhnasva, in 

 Egypt, and by Mr. R. T. Giinther in a paper on the 

 Timaruta charms from Naples. 



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Friday's session will be devoted to papers on anthro- 

 pological surveys, actual and projected, in various parts 

 of the world. Special stress will be laid by Prof. D. J. 

 Cunningham, Mr. J. Gray, Mr. F. C. Shrubsall, and 

 others on the practical value of such surveys of the 

 physical characters of a complex modern population in 

 providing data for inquiries of hygienic, economic, and 

 even political nature ; and a discussion is arranged on 

 the best means of organising such surveys, with special 

 reference to the work of the committee on physical 

 deterioration, the report of which is, fortunately, now 

 available for consideration. 



.Another important discussion, also set down provi- 

 sionally for Friday, deals with the report of the com- 

 mittee on the present state of anthropological teaching. 



Monday will be devoted to papers on social and 

 religious institutions, and on folklore, and to a dis- 

 cussion of Sir Richard Temple's method of recording 

 the languages of savages. 



Tuesday's programme deals with recent work in 

 Greek lands, with papers by Dr. Arthur Evans, Miss 

 Boyd, and Messrs. Bosanquet and Dawkins, on their 

 respective excavations in Crete; and with a demonstra- 

 tion by Prof. Montelius on the geometrical period in 

 Greece. Other archjeological papers deal with recent 

 excavations on prehistoric sites in Denmark, Scotland, 

 and elsewhere. 



The papers hitherto received on points of human 

 anatomy are of less popular interest and will probably 

 be discussed by a subsection on one of the days of the 

 meeting, to be announced later. 

 Section I. 



The following .American and foreign physiologists 

 hope to be present at the meeting :— Prof. .Atwatei', 

 Middletown, U.S.A.; Dr. Asher, Berne; Prof. .Adam- 

 kiewicz, Cracow; Prof. Boruttau, Gottingen ; Prof. 

 Biedl, Vienna; Friiulein Bienenfeld, Vienna; Dr. Bar- 

 bieri, Paris; Dr. Camus, Paris; Prof. Cavazzani, 

 Ferrara ; Prof. Dupuy, Paris; Prof. Donaldson, 

 Chicago'; Prof. Frohlich, Aienna ; Prof. Gley, Paris; 

 Prof, van Gehuchten, Louvain ; Prof. Johannson, 

 Stockholm; Prof. Kossel, Heidelberg; Prof. Munk, 

 Berlin; Prof. Magnus, Heidelberg; Prof. Mares, 

 Prague; Prof. Macallum, Toronto; Prof. Nicloux, 

 Paris; Prof. Porter, Cambridge, U.S.A. ; Prof. Stewart, 

 Chicago; Dr. A'eress, Wurzburg ; Prof. A'erworn, Got- 

 tingen; Dr. A'aschide, Paris; Prof. Wedenskii, St. 

 Petersburg. 



The organising committee has introduced two 

 items which it is hoped will prove of considerable in- 

 terest. Prof. .Atwater will give a lecture entitled 

 " Nutrition Experiments on Man in the United States." 

 The lecture will include an account of the laborious 

 researches carried on at Middletown, U.S. .A., under the 

 auspices of the United States Government. The lecture 

 will be of an entirely popular character, and Prof. 

 .Atwater will deal not only with the strictly physiological, 

 but also with the economic aspect of the subject. He 

 will treat of such problems as the feeding of thevery 

 poor in large cities. The second new feature will be 

 a couple of discussions of a highly technical nature- 

 oxidation and functional activity, and conduction and 

 structure in the nerve-cell and nerve-arc. The discus- 

 sions will be opened by Sir John Burdon-Sanderson and 

 Prof. Langlev respectively. There will also be a num- 

 ber of papers "on physiological subjects, and oa Saturday 

 morning two sittings will take place simultaneously, 

 one being devoted to pathology and the other to experi- 

 mental psychology and the special senses. 



.Sc'c-//oi! K {Botany and Agriculture). 



The following botanical guests are expected :— Prof. 

 Bertrand, Lille'; Prof. Borzi, Palermo; Prof. Chodat, 

 Geneva; Prof. Czapek, Prague; M. de Candolle, 



