jjj, GENERAL MEETINGS, PUBLIC LECTURES, &c. 



All of these deserve our heartfelt thanks, and I consider it a high 

 honour to be able, as President of the Association, to express them. 



Lord Balfour, at our inaugural session, suggested that the future 

 harvest, of which this Meeting is the seed-time, might be a notable one. 

 I do not know how far this prophecy is likely to be justified in the immediate 

 future. But, from what I saw during my stay in Oxford, I do feel confident 

 that there is alive in the army of scientific workers to-day a spirit of 

 enthusiasm and energy which cannot fail to achieve great things. I strongly 

 hope that at any rate the coming shadow of such achievement, if not the 

 achievement itself, may be visible before the close of my Presidency a 

 year hence. 



(Signed) Edward P., 

 August 10, 1926. President. 



The following reply was adopted and ordered to be forwarded to the 

 President : 



Oxford, 

 August 11, 1926. 

 To His Royal Highness 



The Prince of Wales, our President. 



Sir, 



At the Concluding General Meeting of the British Association, held 

 in Oxford to-day, Your Royal Highness' gracious message as President 

 has been read and received with acclamation. We desire most gratefully 

 to express our deep sense of the personal sympathy with our aims and • 

 endeavours, and the keen interest in our proceedings, which made your 

 presence among us memorable. Especially do we appreciate the signifi- 

 cance of the Address with which you inaugurated the meeting, and the 

 high ideal of co-operation between research and administration which you 

 have set before us all and before the wider public by whom your words 

 were heard. 



We return to our work in the confidence that your year of office as 

 President, so auspiciously begun, will be fruitful of benefit to the Associa- 

 tion and to the advancement of science. 



I am, Sir, 



Your Royal Highness' obedient servant, 



(Signed) Oliver Lodge, 



Ex-President, Chairman. 



The following Resolution was then adopted with acclamation : 



At the conclusion of a memorable meeting, the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science thanks the University and City of Oxford 

 for the unbounded hospitality with which the Association has been received, 

 and for the generous opportunities afforded its members to prosecute their 

 labours and enjoy their recreations in an environment previously endeared 

 to many of them, and unsurpassed in its manifold interests for them all. 



