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Evening Discourses. 



Prof. A. S. Eddington, F.R.S. : ' Stars and Atoms.' 8 p.m., August 6, 

 Union Society's Hall. 



Prof. H. Fairfield Osborn, For. Mem. E.S. : ' Discoveries in the Gobi 

 Desert by tlie American Museum Expeditions.' 8 p.m., August 9, Town 

 Hall. 



Citizens' Lectures. 



Prof. P. F. Kendall, F.R.S. : 'Coal' 8.30 p.m., August 5, Union 

 Society's Hall. 



Capt. P. P. Eckersley : ' "Wireless.' 8.30 p.m., August 6, Town Hall. 



Sir Dugald Clerk, K.B.E., F.R.S. : ' The Rise of the Internal Combus- 

 tion Engine.' 5.30 p.m., August 7, Union Society's Hall. 



Sir William Bragg, K.B.E., F.R.S. : ' Necessity is the Mother of 

 Invention.' 8.30 p.m., August 9, Union Society's Hall. 



Prof. Julian Huxley : ' Animal Courtship.' 8.30 p.m., August 10, 

 Union Society's Hall. 



Lectures to Young People. 



Prof. W. Garstang : ' The Songs of Birds.' 10.30 a.m., August 6, 

 Electra Palace Cinema. 



Mr. 0. G. S. Crawford : ' A Day in the Life of a Cave Man.' 10.30 a.m., 

 August 10, Oxford Super-Cinema. 



Concluding General Meeting. 



The concluding General Meeting was held in the Examination Schools 

 on Wednesday, August 11, at 12 noon, Sir Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., ex-Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. The following letter from the President was read to the 

 meeting : — 



St. James's Palace, London, S.W.I. 



As it has unfortunately not been possible for me to return to Oxford 

 for the conclusion of our Meeting, I must ask the General Secretaries to 

 convey to the Council my warmest congratulations on the success of what 

 I hope will prove to have been one of the most successful of the British 

 Association's annual gatherings. 



To that result, many people, both within and without the Association, 

 have contributed. In the first class are our General Officers, whose admir- 

 able preliminary arrangements ensured the smooth working of the Meeting 

 as a whole and of its many separate units ; our Sectional Officers, on whom 

 rested the responsibility of organising those units ; and, not least, the rank 

 and file of our members, whose enthusiasm and devotion to the cause of 

 Science has been a great inspiring force. 



Secondly, there are our hosts in the University and City of Oxford, 

 who have thrown open their wonderful heritage to all of us, and shown us 

 unwearying kindness; and our guests, who, by their very presence and 

 by the added weight of learning which they have given to our proceedings, 

 have emphasised the all-important fact that Science works not for one 

 nation, or even one race, but for the common good of all living things. 



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