GENERAL MEETINGS, PUBLIC LECTURES, &c.— RESOLUTIONS, xxv 



Dr. J. A. Bowie : ' The Rationalisation of Industry.' 8 p.m., 

 Sejitember 10, Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester. 



Sir Arthur Keith's lecture on Dr. John Beddoe in Section H {q.v.) was 

 also open to the public. 



DEGREE CONGREGATION OF THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL. 



LEAVE-TAKING. 



A special Degree Congregation of the University of Bristol was held 

 in the University on Wednesday, September 10, at 11 a.m., when the 

 degree of LL.D. (Honoris Causa) was conferred on Prof. F. 0. Bower, 

 F.R.S., President of the Association. 



After the ceremony, the President expressed the thanks of the 

 Association to the University for the hospitality and facilities afEorded 

 for the Meeting. The President and Officers of the Association then 

 waited upon the Lord Mayor, members of the Corporation of Bristol, and 

 local officers for the Meeting, at the Council House, in order to express 

 the thanks of the Association to the City of Bristol. 



RESOLUTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS. 



The following resolutions and recommendations were referred to the 

 Council by the General Committee at Bristol for consideration and, if 

 desirable, for action : — 



From Section A. 



That the attention of the Council be drawn to the desirability of printing the 

 volume of tables which has been prepared by the Mathematical Tables Committee. 



That in connection with the above, the attention of the Council be drawn to the 

 section of the Report dealing with the Cunningham bequest. 



From Section A. 



That the Council be asked to endorse the resolution following addressed to the 

 Board of Visitors of the University of Oxford Observatory, and to urge upon the 

 Board of Visitors the desirability of ensuring the continuance of the Seismological 

 work carried on hitherto at Oxford under the direction of Prof. Turner. 

 Resolution : — 



The Committee of the Section of Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science desire to offer to the Board of 

 Visitors of the University of Oxford Observatory their sincere condolence on the loss 

 that the Observatory has sustained by the death of Prof. H. H. Turner. The Com- 

 mittee further desire to place on record their high appreciation of his long and devoted 

 services to the Sciences of Astronomy and Seismology. 



The Committee express the hope that the death of Prof. Turner will involve no 

 discontinuity in the Astronomical and Seismological work, of international importance, 

 which is so honourably associated with his name, and with that of the Universitj'. 



From Section H. 



In view of the increasingly rapid disappearance of material relating to the 

 popular arts and crafts of the British people, the Committee of Section H requests 

 Coun,cil to ask His Majesty's Government to put into effect the recommendation of 



