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Kingbtown Pavilion, by special arrangement with 

 Messrs. Adeler and Sutton. 



The remaining days will be filled as follows : — 

 Monday, .September 7, 3.30 p.m., garden party at St. 

 Anne's, Clontarf, given by l.ord and Lady .Ardilaun ; 

 Tuesday, 3.30, garden party at the Zoological Gardens, 

 given by the local committee. .\t 8.30 p.m., reception 

 by X'is'count and Viscountess Iveagh at So St. 

 Stephen's Green. Both Lord Iveagh and Lord 

 Ardilaun belong to the Guinness family. 



Wednesday, September 9 (closing day), garden party 

 by their Excellencies the. Lord Lieutenant and the 

 Countess of Aberdeen at the Viceregal Lodge, Phoenix 

 Park. 



The excursion programme for Saturday, September 

 5, provides for six dilTerent routes. Perhaps the best 

 of these is the excursion to Mellifont .\bbey and the 

 prehistoric tumuli of Dowth and Newgrange on the 

 Buyne, passing on the way through .Monasterboice 

 and Drogheda. It leaves .Amiens Street at 9.15 a.m., 

 inclusive fare, 12s. Route B leads by Rathnew 

 thiough the wild Devil's Glen to Glendalough, an 

 old monastic retreat situated antong the grandest 

 scenery of County \Vicklow. It leaves Harcourt Street 

 10 a.m., inclusive fare, 115. 6d. Route C proceeds 

 south-west to visit Killaloe, its cathedral, and (by 

 steamer) Holy Island, on Lough Derg. It leaves 

 Kingsbridge at 9 a.m., inclusive fare, 135. 6<f. Route 

 D comprises .Athlone, the " lordly Shannon," and the 

 ancient and picturesque ecclesiastical ruins of Clon- 

 macnois, where .St. Kieran founded an abbey as early 

 as ..\.D. 548. It leaves Broadstone station at 9 a.m., 

 inclusive fare, it,s. 6d. Route E leads to Bray, the 

 Dargle Glen, and to Powerscourt Waterfall, ending 

 with a reception by the Earl and Countess of Meath 

 at Kilrudderv at 3.30 p.m. Route F leads south to 

 the historic Rock of Cashel, Holycross Abbey, and 

 Thurles. It leaves Kingsbridge at 9 a.m., inclusive 

 fare, 135. 



Among the foreign invited guests of the British 

 Association the following have accepted to date : — 

 John Graham Brooks, Moritz J. Bonn (Munich), Prof. 

 J. W. Bruhl (Heidelberg), Prof. Ernst Francke 

 (Berlin), Prof. Gustave Gilson (Louvain), Prof. A. A. 

 Hubrecht (Utrecht), Prof. E. J. James (Illinois), 

 C. \\'. Rubenscn (Christiania), Prof. .\. L. Rotch (of 

 the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory), Prof. 

 Lotsv (Levden), Haakon Schetelig (Bergen Museum), 

 Prof! .\chille Russo (Catania). M. Teisserenc de Bort 

 (Paris), Prof. .\. Kossel (Heidelberg), and W. 

 Vernadsky (St. Petersburg). 



A novel feature w-ill be the intersectional telephone 

 service, whereby a list of papers being read at each 

 section \\'\\\ be on view at every section. This will be 

 organised by means of a special telephone service 

 worked by a staff of more than thirty operators. 

 Communication between the various sections will be 

 facilitated by a special tram service connecting all the 

 sections, and also by a service of motor cars kindly 

 placed at the disposal of the local committee. 



The funds locally required have been subscribed 

 without any very special effort, and a large amount 

 of hospitality is being offered. E. E. Fournier. 



Provisional Programmes of Sections. 



Section B (Chemistry). — .\ leading feature in this year's 

 programme are discussions arranged with the object ol 

 focussing as clearly as possible the present state of know- 

 ledge and opinion. The subjects selected are : — Fermenta- 

 tion ; the nature of chemical change ; peat ; and colloids. 

 In thr- first. Dr. Harden, Prof. A. J. Brown, Dr. Slator, 

 Dr. E. F. .Armstrong, and others are taking part. The sub- 

 ject of chemical change will be introduced by Prof. H. E. 

 Armstrong, and his views should provoke a lively opposi- 



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tion on the part of the upholders of the ionic tjieory. Peat 

 has been selected as likely to arouse local interest ; those 

 contributing include Dr. WohlterecU, Capt. Sankey, Prof. 

 Ryan, Prof. Johnson, Prof. Lyon, Dr. Adeney, Mr. K. B. 

 EUer, and others. Prof. Procter will present a report on 

 the present position, of the chemistry of the colloids, and 

 Dr. Findlay promises a paper in this subject. Sir \A'm. 

 Ramsay, K.C.B., is contributing a popular account of his 

 recent researches entitled " The Inactive Gases," in which 

 these and the emanations will be dealt with in respect to 

 the periodic table. Prof. W. H. Perkin will describe syn- 

 thetical experiments in the terpene series, and other papers 

 from his laboratory are promised by Messrs. C. \A'eizmann 

 and R. Robinson. Further papers in organic themistry will 

 be contributed by Prof. F. S. Kipping — optically active 

 silicon compounds — Dr. F. D. Chaltaway, and Mr. M. 

 Nierenstein. Prof. Pope and i\Ir. Barlow will deal with 

 valency, a subject which provoked so much discussion last 

 year. Other papers include : — The properties of oxygen ; 

 and the curriculum in chemistry. Prof. H. E. Armstrong; 

 the selective permeability of the coverings of certain seeds. 

 Prof. A. J. Brown ; rapid electrolysis. Dr. Sand ; mercerisa- 

 tion. Dr. HUbner. 



Section C (Geology). — Great interest centres in the 

 address of the president. Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S., who will 

 deal with the question of radium and geology. At the 

 Leicester meeting Prof. Joly gave a foretaste of the wide- 

 spread effects which radium may exercise on geological 

 problems, and in the hands of one who is at once a high 

 authority on physics as well as geology we may look for 

 important and stimulating results. .After the president's 

 address. Prof. Cole will give a popular lecture on the 

 general geology of the Dublin district, and a series of 

 excursions arranged by Mr. H. J. Seymour will enable 

 members to gain a practical knowledge of the district. 

 Other papers dealing with local geology will be given by 

 Prof. Cole (i) on probable Cretaceous outliers off the coast 

 of CO. Kerry, (2) on the laterite and bauxite zone of north- 

 east Ireland. Mr. H. Bolton will describe a section of the 

 emerald pit at Dungannon, and an important contribution 

 by Messrs. R. J. Ussher, H. J. Seymour, E. T. Newton, 

 and Dr. R. F. Scharff will throw new light on the ques- 

 tion of the age of some caves in Castle Park, near 

 Doneraile. Petrology will be represented by papers by Dr. 

 F. W. Hume on the' petrography of Egypt, Prof. Joly will 

 record the occurrence of native iron in the Deccan basalts, 

 Mr. W. G. Fearnsides will describe the tourmaline rocks 

 of Cwm Dwthwc, near Llanberis, and Mr. H. Brodrick 

 will give an account of the formation of cave pearls. 

 Palreontology does not promise to occupy an undue amount 

 of time, but the announcement by Mr. H. Brodrick of the 

 occurrence of reptilian footprints in the inferior oolite of 

 Whitby, and the report on the fauna and flora of the 

 Trias, will no doubt arouse some interest. In general 

 geology, Prof. W. M. Davis, of Harvard, will give a new 

 rendering of the glacial erosion which has taken place in 

 the Snowdonian district. Dr. Tempest Anderson will 

 describe the changes which have taken place in St. Vincent 

 since the great eruption, and Dr. Woolacott will give an 

 account of a case of thrust and crush brecciation in the 

 magnesian limestone of co. Durham. A discussion on 

 mountain building has been arranged, and it is expected 

 that some of our foremost geologists will take part. 

 HahittuH of Section C always look forward to an address 

 by Prof. J. Milne, and his contribution on the duration and 

 direction of large earthquakes will be as suggestive and 

 inspiring as any in the past. Besides the papers mentioned 

 above, the results of the various research committees will 

 be presented to the meeting. 



Section D (Zoology).— Dr. S. F. Harmer, F.R.S., in 

 his presidential address, will deal with polyzoa. Dis- 

 cussions : — (i) On the abuses resulting from the strict ap- 

 plication of the rule of priority in zoological nomenclature, 

 and on the means of protecting well-established names, 

 opened by Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. ; probable speakers : 

 tine president. Dr. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Dr. Hoyle 

 (i\Ianchester), and others, (ii) Determination of sex, opened 

 bv Mr. Doncaster ; probable speaker? : Prof. Bateson, 

 F.R.S., Mr. Punnett, .Mr. Walter Heape, F.R.S., Prof. 

 Russo (University of Catania), jointly with Section K ; 

 afternoon lecture (lantern) : Some points in the evolution of 



