eXvi GENERAL MEETINGS. 
General Meetings at Leicester. 
On Wednesday, July 31, at 8.30 p.m., in the Opera House, Sir E. Ray 
Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S., resigned the office of President to Sir David 
Gill, K.C.B., F.R.S., who took the Chair and delivered an Address, for 
which see p. 3. 
On Thursday, August 1, at 8 p.m.,a Fete was given in the Abbey 
Park by the Mayor of Leicester. 
On Friday, August 2, at 8.30 p.m., in the Opera House, Mr. W. 
Duddell, F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on ‘The Are and the Spark in 
Radio-telegraphy.’ 
On Monday, August 5, at 8.30 p.m., in the Temperance Hall, Dr. F. A. 
Dixey delivered a Discourse on ‘Recent Developments in the Theory of 
Mimicry.’ 
On Tuesday, August 6, at 8 p.m., a Conversazione was held in the 
Museum Buildings. 
On Wednesday, August 7, at 2.30 p.m., the concluding General 
Meeting was held in the Municipal Buildings, when the following Reso- 
lutions were adopted :— 
1. That a cordial vote of thanks be given to the Mayor and Corpora- 
tion of Leicester for the reception which they have accorded to the British 
Association, and for the facilities placed at the disposal of the Officers of 
the Association. 
2. That a cordial vote of thanks be given (i) to the Local Executive 
Officers and Committees for the admirable arrangements made for the 
meetings ; (ii) to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society ; (iii) to 
the public institutions which have granted the use of their buildings for 
sectional proceedings ; and (iv) to the schools aud works thrown open to 
the inspection of the members. 
3. That the grateful thanks of the Association be given to the citizens 
of Leicester for the generous hospitality shown to its members on the 
occasion of this meeting. 
4, Vote of thanks to the President for his conduct in the Chair. 
The meeting was then adjourned to Dublin, September 2, 1908. 
OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES PRESENT AT 
THE LEICESTER MEETING. 
SECTION A.—MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 
President.—Prof. A. E. H. Love, F.R.S. Vice-Prestdents.—Principal E. H. 
Griffiths, F.R.S.; the Earl of Berkeley, F.G.S. Secretaries.—Prof. A. W. Porter, 
B.Se. (Recorder); Dr. L. N. G. Filon; Dr. J. A. Harker; A. R. Hinks, M.A.; 
E. E. Brooks, B.Sc. 
SECTION B.—CHEMISTRY. 
President.—Prof. A. Smithells, F.R.S.  Vice-Presidents—Prof. Wyndham 
Dunstan, F.R.S.; Prof. W. J. Pope, F.R.S.; Sir William Crookes, F.R.S.; Sir 
Henry E. Roscoe, F.R.S. Secreturies—Prof. A. W. Crossley, F.R.S. ( Recorder’) ; 
Dr. E. F. Armstrong; Dr. F. M. Perkin; J. H. Hawthorn, M.A. 
SECTION C.—GEOLOGY. 
President—Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S.  Vice-Presidents.—Prof. Frech ; 
Prof. J. P. Iddings ; G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S. ; Prof. C. Lapworth, F.R.S. ; C. Fox 
Strangways; Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S. Secretaries.—J. Lomas, F.G.S. 
(Recorder) ; Rey. W. Lower Carter, M.A.; Prof. Theodore Groom, D.Se.; F. W. 
Bennett, M.D. 
