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GENERAL MEETINGS AT HULL. 



Inaugural General Meeting. 



On Wednesday, September 6, at 8.30 p.m., in the City Hall, Sir 

 T. Edward Thorpe, C.B., F.E.S., resigned the office of President of 

 the Association to Professor Sir C. S. Sherrington, G.B.E., Pres. E.S., 

 who delivered an addi'ess on ' Some Aspects of Animal Mechanism ' 

 (for which see p. 1). 



Evening Discourses. 



On Friday, September 8, at 8.30 p.m., in the Cdty Hall, Professor 

 W. Garstang delivered a discourse on ' Fishing : Old Ways and New.' 



On Tuesday, September V2, at 8.30 p.m., in theY'ity Hall, Dr. 

 F. W. Aston, F.E.S., delivered a discourse on ' The Atoms of Matter: 

 their Size, Number, and Construction.' 



Concluding General Meeting. 



The concluding General Meeting was held in the Queen's Hall on 

 Wednesday, September 13, at 12 noon, when, on the motion of the 

 President, it was resolved by acclamation : — 



' That the British Association do thank the City of Hull.' 



PUBLIC LECTURES AT HULL. 



Public or Citizens' Lectures were delivered as follows: — 



Tuesday, September 5, at 8 p.m., in the City Hall: Dr. E. H. 

 Griffiths, F.E.S., on ' The Conservation and Dissipation of Energy.' 



Thursday, September 7, at 8 p.m., in the Ecyal Institution: Pro- 

 fessor A. P. Coleman, F.E.S., on 'Labrador.' 



Saturday. September 9, at 8 p.m., in the City Hall: Eev. A. L. 

 Cortie, S.J., on ' The Earth's Magnetism.' 



Monday, September 11, at 8 p.m., in the City Hall: Sir Westcott 

 Abell, K.B.E., on ' The Story of the Ship.' 



Tuesday, Seiatember 12, at 8 p.m., in the Eoyal Institution: Dr. 

 A. Smith 'Woodward, F.E.S., on 'The Ancestry of Man.' (The 

 accommodation available proved insufficient for the numbers who desired 

 to hear this lecture, and many of the public, who were unable to obtain 

 entrance, were admitted to Dr. Aston's evening discourse, which was 

 being given on the same evening at the City Hall.) 



Dr. Smith Woodward repeated his lecture to the citizens of Scai'- 

 borough on Wednesday, September 13. 



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CHILDREN'S LECTURES AT HULL. 



Special lectures for children were given in the Majestic Hall, George 

 Street (through the courtesy of the Management), upon the following 

 dates, at 10.30 a.m. : — 



Thursday, September 7: Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, on ' Creatures of 

 the Sea.' 



Friday, September 8: Mr. F. Debenham, O.B.E., on 'The 

 Antarctic. ' 



Tuesday, September 12: Prof. H. H. Turner, F.E.S., on 'The 

 Telescope and what it tells us. ' 



