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BRITISH ASSOCIATION EXHIBITIONS. 



For the Oxford Meeting, British Association Exhibitions (referred to 

 in § IX. of the Report of the Council, 1922-23) were awarded to nineteen 

 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 Oxford by various colleges, &c., arrange- 

 ments being made by the Local Executive Committee. Eight of the 

 universities or colleges allowed expenses for twenty-six additional 

 exhibitioners, while five selected students from Liverpool received grants 

 for the same purpose out of a fund formed from the surplus of the moneys 

 collected for the local fund in connection with the Liverpool Meeting, 1923. 

 The exhibitioners were presented to the President, H.R.H. The Prince 

 of Wales, in Magdalen College on August 5. Two of their number (Mr. 

 H. G. Littler, Liverpool, and Mr. L. L. Barnes, King's College, London) 

 were elected respectively president and secretary of the exhibitioners 

 for the purpose of communication by them as a body with the general 

 officers. 



GENERAL MEETINGS, ETC., 

 IN OXFORD. 



The Inaugural General Meeting was held on Wednesday, August 4, 

 1926, at 8.30 p.m. The proceedings took place in the Sheldonian Theatre, 

 and were relayed to the Town Hall and to the hall of the Union Society. 

 After the Vice-Chancellor of the University and the Rt. Worshipful the 

 Mayor of Oxford had welcomed the Association, Prof. Horace Lamb, 

 F.R.S., resigned the office of President of the Association to H.R.H. The 

 Prince of Wales, K.G., F.R.S. The new President, after communicating 

 to the meeting a gracious Message from his Majesty the King, and the 

 terms of his reply, delivered an Address (for which see p. 1). The Rt. Hon. 

 the Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S. , ex-President, proposed a vote of 

 thanks to the President, which was carried by acclamation. 



On the conclusion of the proceedings in the Sheldonian Theatre the 

 President was escorted by the Mayor to the Town Hall. He was received 

 there by Prof. H. H. Turner, F.R.S., ex-general secretary of thfe Associa- 

 tion, who had occupied the chair, and by principal representatives of the 

 city, and briefly addressed the audience which had heard the relayed 

 proceedings. The chair at the meeting in the Union Society's hall was 

 taken by Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S. 



On Thursday evening, August 5, receptions were given by the Vice- 

 Chancellor in the Examination Schools, by the Rt. Worshipful the Mayor 

 in the Town Hall, and by the Dean, Canons and Students of Christ Church 

 in Christ Church, all of which were honoured by the presence of the 

 President. 



