720 VISIT OF MEMBERS TO HAVRE. 
VISIT OF MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION TO 
THE MEETING OF L’ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE POUR 
L’AVANCEMENT DES SCIENCES, LE HAVRE, 1914. 
It was reported to the Council in November 1912 that a letter had 
been received from Dr. A. Loir, Director of the Bureau d’Hygiéne, of 
Havre, and Local Secretary for the Meeting of L’Association Frangaise 
pour l’'Avancement des Sciences in Havre in 1914, intimating that that 
Association and the municipality of Havre desired to invite as guests 
leading Members of the British Association who might not be attending 
the Meeting in Australia, and that all Members not attending that 
Meeting would be welcomed at the Meeting of the French Association ; 
also proposing that the Conference of Delegates should meet in Havre. 
Information had also been received from Dr. Loir that a Local Com- 
mittee, including some of the principal British residents in Havre, had 
been formed for the reception of Members of the British Association if 
the above invitation were accepted. The Council resolved that the 
invitation be cordially accepted, in general terms, and that details of the 
arrangements be left in the hands of the President and General Officers, 
with the assistance of the following Committee: Dr. J. G. Garson, Dr. 
A. Vernon Harcourt, and Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell. The Committee 
was empowered to add to its number. 
It was decided in 1913, after discussion by the Corresponding 
Societies Committee, the Conference of Delegates at the Birmingham 
Meeting, the General Committee and the Council, that the Conference 
of Delegates should meet at Havre in 1914. 
Report to the Council of the British Association of the Committee for 
the Havre Meeting of l’Association Francaise pour l’Avancement des. 
Sciences. 
The Committee have to report that the Havre Meeting of the Association 
Frangaise pour l’Avancement des Sciences was held at Le Havre from the 
27th to the 31st of July. Owing to the political situation it was found neces- 
sary to curtail the duration of the Meeting somewhat. 
About forty Members and Associates of the British Association attended, and 
received a most cordial reception from their French confréres; several of them 
were also very hospitably entertained during the Meeting. 
The final list of delegate officials from the British Association was as 
follows :— 
Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., Premier Delegate. 
Sir Edward Brabrook, C.B. 
Dr. J. G. Garson, Chairman of the Havre Committee. 
Dr. F. A. Bather, D.Sc., F.R.S., Delegate of the Museums Association. 
Professor A. H. Reginald Buller, Ph.D., University of Manitoba. 
At the General Inaugural Meeting Sir William Ramsay gave an eloquent 
address in French, which was much appreciated by the audience. 
Two meetings of the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies were 
held; the first under the presidency of Sir Edward Brabrook, who in the absence 
