NARRATIVE’ OF THE’ LEICESTER 
MEETING. 
On Wednesday, September 6, at 8.30 P.M. the Inaugural General Meeting 
was held in the De Montfort Hall, when the Rt. Worshipful the Lord 
Mayor of Leicester (Councillor Arthur Hawkes, J.P.) welcomed the 
Association to Leicester, and the President of the Association, Sir 
Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Pres. R.S., delivered an Address (for which 
see p. 1), entitled Some Chemical Aspects of Life. 
On Friday, September 8, in the Great Hall of Wyggeston Boys’ School, 
at 8.15 P.M., Sir Josiah Stamp, G.B.E., General Treasurer. of the 
Association, delivered an Evening Discourse entitled Must Science ruin 
Economic Progress ? (for an abstract of which see p. 578). 
On Monday, September 11, in the Lancaster Hall, at 8.15 P.m., Prof. 
Jocelyn F. Thorpe, C.B.E., F.R.S., delivered an Evening Discourse, 
with cinematograph and illustrations and experiments, entitled The 
Work of the Safety in Mines Research Board (for an abstract of which 
see p. 584). 
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Public Lectures were given by Sir Henry Fowler, K.B.E., on Tuesday, 
September 5, on Transport for a Century, and by Prof. Julian Huxley, 
‘on Saturday, September 9, on Ants and Men. 
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The Lord..Mayor and Lady Mayoress of the City of Leicester 
(Councillor Arthur’ Hawkes, J.P., and Mrs. Hawkes) entertained 
members of the Association at a Reception in the De Montfort Hall on 
Thursday evening, September 7. 
The. President (His Grace the Duke of Rutland), the Chairman 
(Sir Jonathan North), the Principal and Members of the College Council 
of University College, Leicester, entertained members of the Association 
at a Garden Party in the grounds of University College on Monday 
afternoon, September 11. 
The President (Mr. H. Percy Gee, J.P.) and Council of the Leicester 
Literary and Philosophical Society entertained members of the Association 
at a Reception in the City Art Gallery and Museum on Tuesday evening, 
September 12. 
Numerous other institutions and works in the city and neighbourhood 
afforded facilities and entertainment to members during the meeting. 
An exhibition indicating the value of planning in connection with 
modern problems in town and country was held under the joint auspices 
of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, the University 
College, Leicester, and Section E (Geography) of the Association, and 
helped to illustrate papers read in the Section. 
