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CONTENTS. 



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•Officeks and Council, 1926-27 v 



Local Officers, Oxford, 1926 vii 



Sections and Sectional Officers, Oxford, 1926 vii 



Annual Meetings : Places and Dates, Presidents, Attendances, 

 Receipts, Sums Paid on account of Grants for Scientific 

 Purposes (1831-1926) x 



Heport of the Council to the General Committee (1925-26) xiv 



British Association Exhibitions xviii 



General Meetings, Public Lectures, etc., at Oxford xviii 



External Lectures xxi 



General Treasurer's Account (1925-26) xxi 



Research Committees (1926-27) xxvi 



•Caird Fund xxxi 



Resolutions and Recommendations (Oxford Meeting) xxxi 



The Presidential Address: By H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, 



K.G., D.C.L., F.R.S 1 



Sectional Presidents' Addresses : 



A.— The Analysis of Line Spectra. By Prof. A. Fowler, F.R.S. ... 16 



B. The Scope of Organic Chemistry. By Prof. J. F. Thorpe, F.R.S. 46 



,C. Progress in the Study of the Lower Carboniferous (Avonian) 



Roclis of England and Wales. By Prof. S. H. Reynolds 65 



D. Biology and the Training of the Citizen. By Prof. J. Graham 



Kerr, F.R.S 102 



E. The Economic Development of Tropical Africa and its Effect 



on the Native Population. By the Hon. W. Ormsby-Gore, M.P. 113 



F.^Inheritance as an Economic Factor. By Sir Josiah Stamp, G.B.E. 128 



G.— Electricity Supply. By Sir John F. C. Snell, G.B.E 156 



H.— The Regional Balance of Racial Evolution. By Prof. H. J. 



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