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BRITISH ASSOCIATION EXHIBITIONS. 
For the Liverpool Meeting, British Association Exhibitions (referred 
to in § IX. of the above report) were awarded to twenty students 
nominated by the same number of universities and colleges. Their 
travelling expenses (railway fares) were met by the Association, which 
also issued complimentary students’ tickets of membership to them; 
they were entertained in Liverpool by the Local Executive Committee 
at; University hostels in Liverpool. Six of the universities or colleges 
allowed travelling expenses for thirteen additional exhibitioners, who 
also received the other facilities indicated above. The exhibitioners 
were enabled to meet the President and general officers. One of their 
number (Mr. W. W. Allen, of King’s College, London) was elected 
secretary for the purpose of communication by the exhibitioners as a 
body with the general officers. 
GENERAL MEETINGS, p 
SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITION, AND SOIREE 
AT LIVERPOOL. 
InaAvuGuRAL GENERAL Marerrina. 
On Wednesday, September 12, at 8.30 p.m., in the Philharmonic 
Hall, Prof. Sir Charles S. Sherrington, G.B.E., Pres.R.S., resigned 
the office of President of the Association to Prof. Sir Ernest Rutherford, 
F.R.S., who delivered an address on ‘The Electrical Structure of 
Matter ’ (for which see p. 1). 
The address was broadcast from all stations of the British Broad- 
casting Company, and was effectively heard in all parts of Great Britain ; 
it was also reported as clearly received by a listener in Switzerland. 
Arrangements for land-line transmission were made by the Western 
Electric Company, and these also enabled the address to be repeated 
in the Small Concert Room, St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, where a 
duplicate set of the lantern-sides used by the speaker was shown at 
the appropriate points in the address. 
EVENING LECTURE. 
On Friday, September 14, at 8.30 p.m., in the Philharmonic Hall, 
Prof. G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S., delivered a lecture on ‘ The Study of 
Man.’ 
ScIENTIFIC EXHIBITION. 
A Scientific Exhibition was opened in the Central Technical School 
from September 10 to 22, the public being admitted in addition to 
