NARRATIVE OF THE YORK 

 MEETING. 



On Wednesday, August 31, at 8.30 p.m. the Inaugural General Meeting 

 was held in the Exhibition Hall, when the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of 

 York (Alderman R. H. Vernon Wragge) welcomed the Association to 

 York, and the President of the Association, Sir Alfred Ewing, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., delivered an Address (for which see p. i), entitled An Engineer's 

 Outlook. 



On Friday, September 2, in the Co-operative Hall, at 8 p.m., Sir Arthur 

 W. Hill, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., delivered an Evening Discourse on Plant 

 Products of the Empire in relation to Human Needs (for an abstract of 

 which see p. 432). 



On Monday, September 5, in the Co-operative Hall, at 5.30 p.m., 

 Mr. H. E. Wimperis, C.B.E., delivered a Public Lecture on Speed in 

 Flight. 



On Tuesday, September 6, in the Co-operative Hall, at 8 p.m., Mr. C. C. 

 Paterson, O.B.E., delivered an Evening Discourse, with demonstrations, 

 on The Uses of Photoelectric Cells (for an abstract of which see p. 435). 



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On Thursday, September i, at 8.30 p.m., the Lord Mayor and the 

 Sheriff (Mr. Arnold S. Rowntree) held a Reception in the Exhibition 

 Buildings. 



On Monday, September 5, the Directors of Messrs. Rowntree & Co., 

 Ltd., received Members at a garden-party and tour of the Cocoa Works. 



Numerous other works in the city and neighbourhood were visited. 



Among institutions which offered facilities to Members, the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society (the mother-society of the Association) gave the 

 free use of the Yorkshire Museum and Museum Gardens to Members 

 during the day-time. In the evenings the grounds and buildings were 

 flood-lighted by gas. 



A special service was held in the Minster on Sunday morning, 

 September 4, when Officers and other Members accompanied the Lord 

 Mayor, the Sheriff and the City Council in state from the Guildhall. 



The palace at Bishopthorpe was open to Members by kind permission 

 of His Grace the Lord Archbishop of York. 



On Saturday, September 3, general excursions took place to Ripon, 

 Fountains Abbey, and Aldborough ; Knaresborough, Harrogate, and 

 Nidderdale ; Wensleydale ; Scarborough and Whitby ; Coxwold, 

 Byland Abbey, Helmsley, and Rievaulx Abbey ; Castle Howard and 

 Kirkham Abbey ; and Members were officially received at many of 



