ADDEESS 



BT 



Professor SIR WILLIAM TURNER, M.B., D.C.L., 

 LL.D., D.Sc, F.R.S., 



PRESIDENT. 



Twenty-seven years ago the British Association met in Bradford, not at 

 that time raised to the dignity of a City. The meeting was very success- 

 ful, and was attended by nearly 2,000 persons — a forecast, let us hope, 

 of what we may expect at the present assembly. An eminent chemist. 

 Professor A. W. "Williamson, presided. On this occasion the Associa- 

 tion has selected for the presidential chair one whose attention has 

 been given to the study of an important department of biological science. 

 His claim to occupy, however unworthily, the distinguished position in 

 which he has been placed, rests, doubtless, on the fact that, in the midst 

 of the engrossing duties devolving on a teacher in a great University 

 and School of Medicine, he has endeavoured to contribute to the sum 

 of knowledge of the science which he professes. It is a matter of satis- 

 faction to feel that the success of a meeting of this kind does not rest upon 

 the shoulders of the occupant of the presidential chair, but is due to the 

 eminence and active co-operation of the men of science who either pre- 

 side over or engage in the work of the nine or ten sections into which the 

 Association is divided, and to the energy and ability for organisation 

 displayed by the local Secretaries and Committees. The programme pre- 

 pared by the general and local officers of the Association shows that nc 

 efforts have been spared to provide an ample bill of fare, both in its 

 scientific and social aspects. Members and Associates will, I feel sure, 

 take away from the Bradford Meeting as pleasant memories as did our 

 colleagues of the corresponding Association Frangaise, when, in friendly 

 collaboration at Dover last year, they testified to the common citizenship 

 of the Universal Republic of Science. As befits a leading centre of 

 industry in the great county of York, the applications of science to the 

 industrial arts and to agriculture will form subjects of discussion in the 

 papers to be read at the meeting. 



