Xlii GENERAL MEETINGS, 



GENEEAL MEETINGS AT BOURNEMOUTH. 



On Tuesday, September 9, at 8.30 p.m., in tlie Winter Gardens 

 Pavilion, Sir Arthur Evans, F.R.S., resigned the office of President to 

 the Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, K.C.B., P.R.S. Before vacating the 

 chair, Sir Arthur Evans moved, and it was unanimously resolved, that 

 the following message be forwarded to His Majesty the King: — 



Your Majesty, — 



On the occasion of the outbreak of the great war we, the Members of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science, at that time assembled in 

 our eighty-fifth Congress, gave an unanimous expression to our devoted loyalty 

 to Your Majesty's person, which Your ilajesty was graciously pleased to 

 acknowledge. 



To-day, once more assembled in our eighty-seventh Congress, it is our heart- 

 felt desire on the victorious conclusion of the war and the formal proclamation of 

 peace, to renew those assurances and to express, in more than a formal manner, 

 our high sense of the example of self -sacrificing devotion to the service of the 

 country that has been so simply offered by Your Majesty throughout this long 

 and arduous struggle. 



We are painfully, aware indeed that, in spite of the decision in the fieM, the 

 peiiod of stress is by no means over. We cannot from our special point of view 

 be blind to the extent to which the bitter emergencies of war-time have been 

 prejudicial to those ideas and methods which it is our mission to promote. But 

 in the not less arduous struggle that lies before us to regain the stable paths of 

 peace we are heartened by the knowledge that the same wise and conciliating 

 influence and high example that was of such sovran help to the British people 

 in war-time will still be with them. 



His Majesty was graciously jileased to accept the above Address. 



Sir Arthur Evans referred to eminent members of the Association 

 who had died since the previous meeting. These included the follow- 

 ing:— 



The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, P.R.S. , President, 1884; Trustee- 

 1883-1919. 



Sir William Crookes, P.R.S., President, 1898. 



Professor G. Carey Foster, P.R.S. , General Treasurer, 1898-1904; 

 Trustee, 1916-19. 



Dr. A. G. Vernon Harcourt P.R.S. , General Secretary, 1883-1897 



Sir Charles Parsons then delivered an Address, for which see page 3. 



On Wednesday evening, September 10, at 8 p.m., a conversazione 

 was given in the Winter Gardens Pavilion by His Worship the Mayor 

 of Bournemouth. 



On Thursday, September 11, at 8.30 p.m., in the Winter Gardens 

 Pavilion, Sir Arthur Evans, P.R.S. , delivered a discourse on 'The 

 Palace of Minos and the Prehistoric Civilisation of Crete. ' (See p. 416.) 



On Friday, September 12, at 8.30 p.m., in the Winter Gardens 

 Pavilion, Mr. Sidney G. Brown, P.R.S. , delivered a discourse on 

 ' The Gyroscopic Compass.' (See p. 418.) 



After the above discourse (the occasion being the concluding General 

 Meeting), the following resolution was unanimously adopted on the 

 motion of the President: — - 



That the cordial thanks of the British Association be extended to the INIayor. 

 Corporation, and Citizens of the Borough of Bournemouth (especially to the 



