NARRATIVE OF THE CAMBRIDGE 



MEETING. 



On Wednesday, August 17, at 8.30 p.m., the Inaugural General Meeting 

 was held in the Regal Cinema, when the Vice-Chancellor of the University 

 of Cambridge (Prof. H. R. Dean, M.D.) and His Worship the Mayor of 

 Cambridge (Councillor E. Saville Peck, M.A.) welcomed the Association 

 to Cambridge. The President of the Association, the Rt. Hon. Lord 

 Rayleigh, F.R.S., delivered an address entitled : (Part I) Vision in Nature 

 and Vision aided by Science, (Part H) Science and Warfare, for which see 

 p. I. A vote of thanks to the President was proposed by Sir Joseph 

 J. Thomson, O.M., F.R.S., Master of Trinity College, and seconded by 

 Dr. G. D. Birkhoff, Past President of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



Evening Discourses were delivered to the members as follows : 



(i) Friday, August 19, in the Arts Theatre, Peas Hill, Dr. H. Godwin : 

 The History of the Fens. (See p. 535.) 



(2) Monday, August 22, in the same theatre. Prof. M. L. Oliphant, 

 F.R.S. : The Contribution of the Electrical Engineer to Modern Physics. 

 (See p. 536.) 



On Tuesday, August 23, at 8.30 p.m., in the Reception Room (Examina- 

 tion School), members of the Scientific Delegation in India, 1937-38, 

 spoke of the experiences of the Delegation. Sir James Jeans, F.R.S. , 

 General President of the Indian Science Congress Association for its 

 Jubilee meeting, was in the chair, and the other speakers were Dr. C. G. 

 Darwin, F.R.S., Dr. J. A. Venn, Prof. Winifred Cullis, C.B.E., Prof. J. H. 

 Fleure, F.R.S., and Prof. W. W. Tattersall. A series of lantern slides 

 from photographs by the late Dr. A. E. H. Tutton, F.R.S., was shown. 

 Photographs by delegates were on exhibition in the Reception room 

 throughout the Cambridge Meeting. For a report on the proceedings of 

 the Delegation, see p. xxvi. 



A summary of Sectional Transactions on August 18-24 ^i^^ be found on 

 pp. 381 and following. 



On Thursday evening, August 18, a Reception was given by the Vice- 

 Chancellor on behalf of the University of Cambridge, in the Senate House 

 and Old Schools. By kind permission of the Master and Fellows of 

 Gonville and Caius College there was dancing in the hall of that college. 



