NARRATIVE OF THE ABERDEEN 
MEETING. 
On Wednesday, September 5, at 8.30 P.M., the Inaugural General Meeting 
was held in the Capitol Cinema (generously placed by the management 
at the disposal of the Association), when the Hon. the Lord Provost of 
Aberdeen (Mr. Henry Alexander, J.P.) and the Principal and Vice-Chan- 
cellor of the University (the Very Rev. Sir George Adam Smith, D.D.) 
welcomed the Association to Aberdeen. The President of the Association, 
Sir James H. Jeans, F.R.S., delivered an Address (for which see p. 1) 
entitled The New World Picture of Modern Physics. 
Before delivering his Address, the President read the following message 
which had been forwarded to The King at Balmoral, and His Majesty’s 
gracious reply :— 
Your Mayjsesty,—We, the Members of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science assembled in the City of Aberdeen in annual 
session, desire humbly to recall to Your Majesty that it was in this City 
that His Royal Highness The Prince Consort assumed the Presidency of 
the Association in the year 1859. From the Presidential Chair, he con- 
veyed to the assembled members of the Association a gracious message 
from Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and delivered an Address which dis- 
closed his own profound interest in the advancement of Science. The 
many marks of Royal favour which have been extended to our Association 
on subsequent occasions have provided further signal encouragement to 
us in our pursuit of the aims defined by His Royal Highness, and on all 
these counts we now desire to express to Your Majesty our humble gratitude. 
(Signed) J. H. JEANS, 
President. 
To The President, 
The British Association, Aberdeen. 
Iam commanded by the King to thank the members of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science for the loyal message which 
they have addressed to His Majesty, their Patron, from the Inaugural 
General Meeting in the Ancient City of Aberdeen. 
His Majesty appreciates their kind remembrance of the occasion when 
the Prince Consort, as President of the Association, delivered a message 
from Queen Victoria to the members assembled in this City three-quarters 
of a century ago. 
The King desires me to assure the members of his unabated interest in 
their Meetings and his confidence that their investigations into the manifold 
problems confronting present day Scientists will continue to be productive 
of results which will benefit mankind. 
(Signed) CLIVE WIGRAM. 
5th September, 1934. 
On Friday, September 7, in the MacRobert Hall, Gordon’s College, 
at 8.30 P.M., Sir Frank Smith, K.C.B., Sec. R.S., delivered an Evening 
Discourse entitled The Storage and Transport of Food (see p. 419), being 
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