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1902, requested the President, the Treasurer, and one of the General 

 Secretaries to attend the celebration and to present the following 

 Address : — 



* British Association for the Advanceaient of Science. 



' The Council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 

 desire to offer their hearty congratulations to the Owens College, Man- 

 chester, on the Jubilee of the foundation of that Institution. The work 

 which lias been done in Manchester in the last half- century has left 

 a mark, not only on that city, but on the educational system of the entire 

 kingdom. The British Association gladly unite themselves with those 

 who honour the parent College of the Victoria University, and cannot 

 forget that the energy and ability of Manchester caused the Meeting of 

 the Association held in that city under the Presidency of Sir Henry 

 Roscoe to be the largest of all the Meetings which the Association has 

 held. It is their sincere desire that the success of the College may be as 

 marked, and that the ties which bind it to the British Association may be 

 as close in the future as they have been in the past. 



' March 1902.' 



' Arthur W. RtcKER, 



' President. 



Invitations for future meetings will be presented from Cambridge 

 and Cape Town. 



The Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee for the past 

 year, together with the list of the Corresponding Societies and the titles 

 of the more important papers, especially those referring to Local Scientific 

 Investigations, published by those Societies during the year ending 

 May 31, 1902, has been received. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. W. 

 Whitaker (Chairman), Dr. Francis Galton, Professor Meldola, Mr. T. V. 

 Holmes, Sir J. Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Di-. H. R. Mill, Mr. Horace T. 

 Brown, Rev. J. O. Bevan, Professor W. W. Watts, Rev. T. R. R. 

 Stebbing, Mr. C. H. Read, Mr. F. W. Rudler, and Dr. Vaughan Cornish, 

 is hereby nominated for reappointment by the General Committee. 



The Council nominate Professor W. W. Watts, Chairman ; Mr. J. H. 

 Merivale, Vice-Chairman ; and Mr. Edward J. Bles, Secretary, to the 

 Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies to be held during the 

 Meeting at Belfast. 



In accordance with the regulations the retiring Members of the 

 Council will be : — 



Sir Norman Lockyer. 

 Sir W. H. Preece. 

 Professor E. B. Tvlor. 



Dr. E. Eay Lankester. 

 Mr. J. E. Marr. 



The nomination of Major MacMahon as General Secretary creates 

 another vacancy. 



The Council recommend the re-election of the other ordinary Members 



