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BRITISH ASSOCIATION NEWS. 
Professor P. F. Kendall, of the Leeds University, has this year been 
elected as vice-president of the geological section of the British Association. 
Mr. Gerald Stoney, in his address to the Engineering Section, tells us 
that ‘It is important to remember that the boy cf to-day is the man of 
to-morrow.’ He ought to have been a zoologist. 
In a discussion at the Conference, the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing referred 
to the work of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, known as 
the S.E.U.S.S., ‘ because we like to see ourselves as others SEUSS ’ ! 
Prof. E. W. MacBride began his address by stating ‘The British 
Association meets for the second time in the midst of a great European 
war.’ Prof. Henderson began his by stating ‘For the third time i n 
succession, the Section meets under the shadow of the war cloud.’ 
Having heard discussions on Omar Khayyam, a Bibliography of 
Violins, etc., between prominent members of the British Association, it 
1S perhaps not surprising to find quotations from ‘ The Pilgrim’s Progress ‘ 
in Prof. Henderson’s address to the Chemical Section. The geologists, 
also, ‘ Christian ’-like, deposited their bundles in the Friends’ Meeting 
House, in Pilgrim Street. 
Prof. A. N. Whitehead says ‘We may conceive humanity as engaged 
in an internecine conflict between youth and age. Youth is not defined 
by years, but by the creative impulse to make something. The aged are 
those who, before all things, desire not to make a mistake. Logic is the 
olive branch from the old to the young, the wand which is in the hands 
of youth has the magic property of creating science.’ 
At a meeting of the General Committee, the Hon. Sir C. A. Parsons 
who had been previously nominated by the Council, was appointed 
President of the Association for the year 1917-18 (Bournemouth Meeting). 
A deputation was received from Cardiff, which conveyed an invitation to 
the Association to hold its meeting in 1918 in that city. The deputation 
was introduced by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle. After the Lord Mayor 
of Cardiff, the Deputy Lord Mayor, Lord Pontypridd and other speakers 
had addressed the meeting, the invitation was unanimously and gratefully 
accepted. 
We learn from the Evening Mail that there were seven signatures 
appended to the request of Sir Benjamin Browne to the members attending 
the meeting of the British Association, in Newcastle, to sign their names 
and note, to the best of their knowledge, at what age they learned to read. 
Mr. Edward C. .Barton, of Melbourne, Australia, who was born in 1858, 
stated that he learned to read when between the age of 54 and 6 years, by 
spelling the letters on the edge of a soup-plate. He learned alphabetical 
order at the age of 12 years. Mr. T. Sheppard wrote: ‘ Born in 1876. 
Learned at 4. Told a lie the same year. 
Speaking on the question of the fuel supply, Sir Hugh Bell recalled that 
Sir William Armstrong spoke upon a similar question fifty - -three years ago. 
Looking round. this hall, I don’t think many of you heard that address. 
I had the misfortune, one that is inevitable if you go on living. Sir 
William Armstrong in ‘that year pointed out that the total tonnage of coal 
raised in the United Kingdom was 86,000,000, and he thought that the 
limit was being reached. Time has proved his prophecy wrong. Let 
me give you a few figures :— 
TESS Be feats ro abeh ae adn, aye ee 163,000,000 tons. 
TOGO Bi. ecytieetiet chases 261,000,000 __,, 
ISOC HE BOL Hately MBO’ 6 287,000,000 ,, 
“ALE therefore will not do to prophecy further.’ 
‘In ‘A Sketch of the Structure of the Northern Pennines.’ Dr. A. 
Wilmore stated ‘This paper attempts a brief summary of the structure 
of the Northern Pennines for geologists and geographers, especially for 
those who are interested in the “relation of geographical form to geological 
1916 Oct. 1. 
