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tures. The following members will take part : — Dr. 

 Boudouard (Paris), Prof. Haber (Karlsruhe), Mr. 

 Dugald Clerk, Prof. B. Hopkinson, Prof. H. B. 

 Dixon, and others. .August 5 : Reports will be re- 

 ceived from the research committees: — (il The trans- 

 formation of aromatic nitramines; (2) the study of 

 hydroaromatic compounds ; (3) preparation of a new 

 series of wave-length tables of the spectra of the 

 elements; (4) dynamic isomerism; (5) the studv of iso- 

 morphous sulphonic derivatives of benzene. The fol- 

 lowing papers will be read : -The applications of 

 Grignard's reaction, Dr. \. McKenzie ; paper by Prof. 

 Tschitschibabin (Moscow); fluid crystals. Prof. Jaeger; 

 atomic weights, Prof. T. W. Richards; carbon sub- 

 oxide. Dr. Boudouard; carbonyl compounds, Dr. 

 H. O. Jones. .August ti : Discussion on the chemistrv 

 of wheat and flour with special reference to strength, 

 to be opened by Mr. .A. E. Humphries, president of 

 the National Association of British and Irish .Millers. 

 The following will take part : — Messrs. R. H. Biffen, 

 T. B. Wood, A. D. Hall, Horace Brown, J. L. Baker, 

 A. J. Banks, E. F. .Armstrong, and E. -S. \\"atkins. 



The following papers, among others, will be read 

 in Section C (Geology) :— Prof. W. W. Watts and 

 Mr. Fox Strangways will give addresses on the 

 geology of the country round Leicester. These will 

 be followed by papers dealing with local geologv bv 

 Drs. Bennett and Stracey and jNIessrs. Horwood, Bos- 

 worth and Keay. .A discussion on the origin and ex- 

 tent of the iron ores of Britain will be opened bv 

 Mr. Bennett H. Brough ; and other authorities on the 

 subject are expected to take part in it. Among 

 other subjects to be brought forward are : — 

 Earthquakes, Prof. Milne; pisolitic iron ores, 

 Mr. W. G. Fearnsides; desert forms. Mr. H. 

 Ferrar; the ancient volcanoes of Basutoland, 

 Rev. S. S. Dornan ; a remarkable occurrence 

 of strontia near Bristol, Mr. H. Bolton ; the gravels 

 of Holderness, Messrs. Stather and Sheppard ; and 

 the occurrence of a marine peat near Liverpool, 

 Mr. J. Lomas. Reports of various committees will 

 be presented. On the fauna and flora of the Trias, 

 Mr. J. Lomas; Carboniferous faunas and zones, 

 Drs. A. Vaughan and Wheelton Hind; .Anglesey 

 Rocks, Mr. E. Greenlv; terms used in geographv 

 and geology, Mr. W. G. Fearnsides ; erratic blocks, 

 Prof. P. F. Kendall ; Pre-Devonian rocks of the 

 Mendips, Prof. S. H. Reynolds; and the Kirmington 

 Drifts, Mr. Stather. Excursions will be made to 

 places of geological interest every afternoon during the 

 meeting, and longer excursions have been arranged 

 for the week-end and at the close of the meeting. 



The following items have been arranged for Sec- 

 lion D (Zoology) : — Presidential address. Dr. W. E. 

 Hoyle; discussion (in conjunction with Section of 

 Botany) on the phvsical basis of hcreditv, to be 

 opened by Prof. S. J. Hickson ; discussion (in 

 conjunction with the Sections of Botany and Educa- 

 tion) on the teaching of bioloafv in schools, to be 

 opened by Mr. O. H. T,atter, of Charterhouse; after- 

 noon lecture by Dr. C. AV. .Andrews, adaptation to 

 aquatic life in reptiles and mammals; problems in the 

 sexual organisation of the Crustacea, Mr. G. W'. 

 Smith ; Pycnogonida, Mr. T. \ . Hodgson ; demonstra- 

 tion of models, Protozoa, &c., Mr. F. R. Rowley; 

 experiments on seasonally dimorphic forms of 

 .African Lcpidoptera, Dr. F. A. Dixey; (i) classification 

 of the Haplosporidia, (2) the movements of Spirochaetes, 

 as seen in 5. balbiaiiii and 5. anodontac, Mr. H. B. 

 Fanthnm ; the rise and recognition of economic 

 biology, Mr. Walter E. Collinge. 



The papers offered to Section E (CTeoe-raphv) in- 

 clude the following : — The survevs of British .Africa, 

 Major C. F. Close, R.E. ; the' maps and methods 

 of the present-day explorer. Captain T. T. Behrens, 



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R.E. ; the geographical evolution of transport, Prof. 

 A'idal de la Blache (Paris) ; commercial geography 

 from the modern standpoint. Prof. Max Eckert (Kiel) ; 

 the hinterland of the Port of Manchester, Mr. J. Mc- 

 Farlane (Manchester); the Jaderin district of southern 

 Norway, Mr. O. J. R. Howarth ; Shotover Hill, a 

 study in morphological causation. Rev. C E. .Spicer ; 

 regional geography of the Land's End peninsula, Mr. 

 .A. \\". .Andrews ; physical geography of the Etbai desert 

 of Egypt, Mr. H. T. Ferrar; travels in the .Andes of 

 Peru, .Mr. C. R. Enock ; the British Museum expedi- 

 tion to Ruwenzori, Mr. R. B. Woosnam ; explorationi 

 in Labrador, .Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard. .Afternoon' 

 lectures: — The Kurds, Mr. Mark Sykes ; the Jamaica 

 earthquake, Dr. A'aughan Cornish ; the preservation 

 of " Naturdcnkmale," or natural monuments, Prof. 

 Conwentz (Danzig) (joint meeting with Sections C 

 and K). 



The programme of Section G (Engineering) is as 

 follows : — .August i : Presidential address, Prof. 

 S. P. Thompson ; the present position of gas and 

 petrol engines, Mr. Dugald Clerk. .August 2 : Joint 

 meeting with Section B to discuss gaseous explosions 

 with special reference to temperature. .August 5 and 

 6 : Pupin's compensated cable for telephone trans- 

 mission, Sir \\'. H. Preece; modern machinery and 

 its future development, Mr. H. L Brackenbury ; a 

 machine for weighing the forces on a cutting tool, 

 Mr. J. F. Brooks ; ferro-concrete and examples of 

 construction, Mr. J. S. E. de Vesian ; examples of 

 ferro-concrete, Mr. W. Noble Twelvetrees ; the equip- 

 ment of the engineering laboratorv at the Finsbury 

 Technical College, Prof. E. G. Coker; the ice problein 

 presented in engineering work in Canada, Prof. 

 Barnes ; notes on the governing of hydraulic tur- 

 bines, Mr. R. S. Ball; submarine signalling, Mr. 

 Millet. A practical demonstration of boot and shoe- 

 making machinerv will be given bv Mr. C. Bennion. 



The programme of the proceedings of Section H 

 (.Anthropology) is even longer than usual, and many 

 of the communications promise to give rise to in- 

 teresting discussion. The greater part of the time 

 of- the section will be taken up by papers of an 

 archaeological character, but the communications in 

 general ethnography, though less numerous than 

 usual, include a number of considerable importance. 

 On .August I a meeting will be held in conjunction 

 with the Section of Educational Science for the dis- 

 cussion of anthropometrics in schools. In archaeology. 

 Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie will describe the results 

 of his excavations in Egypt during the past season, 

 and Dr. E. Naville will deal with the beginnings of 

 Egyptian civilisation. .A discussion on the early Iron 

 age, and the different dates of inception in different 

 areas, in which Sir John Evans has promised 

 to take part, will be opened by Prof. W. Ridgway, 

 and Mr. J. L. Myres will contribute a paper on 

 the Sigvnnae of Herodotus and Cyprian spears. Prof. 

 R. C. Bosanquet will read a paper on the scourging" 

 of the Eohebi at .Sparta. .Accounts of the work of the 

 British Schools of .Archaeology at .Athens and Rome 

 during the past vear will be given bv their respective 

 directors, Mr. R. M. D.iwkins and Dr. T. Ashby. 

 The former will deal chiefly with the excavations in 

 Sparta. In addition. Dr. .Ashby, in a paper on the 

 ethnology of Sardinia, will urge the need of archae- 

 ological and ethnographic investigation in that island 

 for the elucidation of problems of Mediterranean 

 ethnolosrv, and in connection with the report of the 

 Roman Sites Committee will describe the excavations 

 of the past year at Caerwent. .A paper by Mr. F. 

 Newberry and Dr. T. H. Bryce deals with the " door- 

 step art " of .Scotland, Mrs. Hobson will give the 

 results of an examination of a large number of 

 souterrains in Ulster, and Dr. G. .A. Auden will de- 



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