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[Aug. 7, 1873 
fellow workers in the same cause. It was no small 
place in English history which belonged to the city whose 
name stood out in so marked a way in the tale alike of 
the revolution of the eleventh and the seventeenth cen- 
turies. It was no small matter, as we drew near by the 
western bridge or the eastern isthmus, as we passed where 
once stood the eastern and the western gates, as we trod 
the line of the old Roman streets, to think that we were 
following the march of the Conqueror and the Deliverer ; 
it was no small matter, as we entered the minster of 
Leofric, Warlewast, and Grandison, to think that the Zz 
Deum was there sung alike for the overthrow of English 
freedom and for its recovery. It was no mean lesson if we 
had to connect with the remembrances of this ancient city 
—among so many associations of British, Roman, and 
English days—the thought that rose above all the rest, the 
thought that there was no city in the land whose name 
marked a greater stage in the history of the Conquest of 
England, that there was none whose name marked a 
greater stage in the history of her deliverances. 
NOTES 
FOREIGN honours have been recently falling in showers on 
the heads of English scientific men. Not long ago the Emperor 
of Brazil nominated as Knights of the Imperial Order of the 
Rose, the following gentlemen :—Sir G, ‘B. Airy, Dr. Warren 
De La Rue, Dr. Birch, Prof. Abel, Major Moncrieff, Capt. 
Andrew Noble, and Mr. J. Norman Leckyer. The other day, 
King Oscar II. of Sweden, at his coronation at Stockholm, 
marked his appreciation of the services rendered by science by 
conferring distinctions on several men of learning, both Swedes 
and foreigners. Among the latter were the following eminent 
scientific men of this country :—Sir Charles Lyell and Sir George 
B. Airy, named Commanders of the First Class of the Order of 
the Polar Star ; and Professor John Tyndal, Professor Thomas 
Henry Huxley, and the|Director of the Botanical Gardens at 
Kew (Dr. Joseph Daiton Hooker), named Knights of the same 
Order. 
We understand that one of the evening discourses at the 
meeting of the British Association next month will be delivered 
by Prof. W. C. Williamson, of Manchester, on ‘‘Coal and 
Coal Plants.” It is also hoped that Prof. Clerk-Maxwell will 
deliver a discourse on ‘‘ Molecules.” Several papers on subjects 
of local interest have also been promised. The following is a 
list of the vice-presidents and other officers of the Association, 
the president-elect, as we have already announced, being Prof. 
A. W, Williamson, F.R.S, :—Vice-Presidents elect : the Earl 
of Rosse, F.R.S. ; Lord Houghton, F.R.S.; W. E. Forster, 
M.P. ; the Mayor of Bradford ; J. P. Gassiot, F.R.S.; Prof. 
Phillips, F.R,S. ; John Hawkshaw, F.R.S. Local Secretaries 
for the meeting at Bradford: the Rev. J. R. Campbell, D.D. ; 
Mr. R. Goddard ; Mr. Piele Thompson. Local Treasurer for the 
meeting at Bradford; Mr, Alfred Harris, jun, General Secre- 
taries; Capt. Douglas Galton, C.B. R.E, F.R.S., Dr, Michael 
Foster, F.R.S., Trinity College, Cambridge. Assistant General 
Secretary : George Griffiths, M.A. General Treasurer: William 
Spottiswoode, F.R.S. Auditors : John Ball, F.R.S.; J. Gwyn 
Jeffreys, F.R.S. ; Colonel Lane Fox, F.G.S. Thesections are the 
ollowing :—A, Mathematical and Physical Science. —President : 
Prof. Henry J. Stephen Smith, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents : Prof. 
Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., and Prof. Henrici. Secretaries : Prof. 
W. K. Clifford, M.A.; J. W. UL, Glaisher, Prof. A. S. 
Herschel, and Prof. Forbes, B, Chemical Science.—President : 
Dr. W. J. Russell, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: Prof. Roscoe 
and I. Lowthian Bell. .Secretaries : W. Chandler Roberts, F.C.S.; 
Dr, Armstrong; and Prof. Thorpe. C, Geology.— President : 
Prof. Phillips, D,C.L, Vice-President; W. Pengelly 
Secretaries: Louis’ C. Miall; William Topley, F.G.S. ; 
R. Tiddeman, OD, Biology.—Vice-Presidents: Dr. Beddoe 
and Prof. Rutherford, M.D. Department of Zoology and 
Botany.—Secretaries: Prof. Thiselton-Dyer and Prof. Lawson, - 
Department of Anatomy and Physiology.—Secretaries : E. Ray 
Lankester and Dr, Pye-Smith. Department of Anthropology. — 
Secretaries: F. W. Rudler, F.G.S., and J. H. Lamprey. E, 
Geography.—President: Sir Rutherford Alcock. Vice-Presi- 
dents : Major-Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson and John Ball. Secre- 
taries: H. W. Bates, F.R.G.S. ; Keith Johnston, F.R.G.S.; and 
Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S. F, Economic Science 
and Statistics. —President : Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P. Vice-Presi- 
dents: Dr. Farr; Lord Houghton, F.R.S. ; E. Baines, M.P. 
Secretary: J. G. Fitch, M.A. G, Mechanical Science.—Pre- 
sident: W. Froude, LL.D. Vice-President: A. Bessemer, 
Secretaries : H. M. Brunel ; J. N. Shoolbred ; H. Bauerman. 
On Tuesday the forty-first annual meeting of the British 
Medical Association was opened in King’s College, London, the 
large hall of which was crowded on the occasion of the general as- 
sembly, at 3 o’clock. The General Meeting was presided over by 
Mr. A. Baker, surgeon to the General Hospital, Birmingham, and 
president of the Association. Afte: the retiring president had ad- 
dressed the meeting, Sir W. Fergusson took the chair as president 
of the Association for the coming year, and read an address of 
considerable length. It was difficult in the present time, he said, 
for a president of an association like that to find a suitable sub- 
ject for an address, as, whatever topic he started with he was 
immediately surrounded with so many specialists, who of course 
knew everything better than himself, that he did not know 
where to stand. The president then entered at much length on 
the subject of the valley of the Thames and the importance of 
pure water ina hygienic sense. He suggested that, without having 
recourse to the expensive process of going to the lakes of Cumber- 
land and Westmoreland for a supply of pure water, there were 
many streams and rivulets and water sheds where the waters 
could be confined in lake above lake, and utilised for the supply 
cf London and the large towns. In the evening the Lord and 
Lady Mayoress held a reception at the Mansion House, which 
was attended principally by medical gentlemen and their wives 
and daughters. More than 3,000 were received during the 
evening, 
Amonc the distinguished foreigners now attending the meet- 
ing of the British Medical Association in London, may be men- 
tioned—Professors Virchow, Oscar Liebreich, and Baron von 
Langenbeck, of Berlin; Prof. Busch, of Bonn ; Prof, Marey, of 
Paris ; Prof, Chauveau, of Lyons: Prof, Spiegelberg, of Bres- 
lau; Prof. Lazarewitch, of Charkow ; and Dr, Fordyce Barker, 
of New York, 
ON Monday, the annual meeting of the Cambrian Arche- 
ological Association was opened at Knighton, Radnorshire. 
This Association was established some thirty years ago for the 
purpose of investigating and preserving the objects of antiquity 
which abound in the Principality. The first Congress was held 
at Aberystwith, and the present is the 28th of the series. The 
President for the past year was Sir J. Russell Bailey, M.P., and 
the President-elect is the Hon. A. Walsh. The week’s programme 
opened on Tuesday night with the annual meeting and reception 
of report, after which the President for the year, SirJ. R. Bailey, 
was to resign the chair to his successor, the Hon. A, Walsh, who 
was to deliver the inaugural address, The rest of the week will be 
occupied with excursions, and meetings for the reading of papers. 
Mr. G, KiTcHENER has been elected to the headmastership of 
the High School, Newcastle-under-Lyne, Staffordshire, in the 
middle of the Potteries. It is to be the first ‘‘ First Grade” 
established as a semi-classical school (7.2 without Greek in the 
