NARRATIVE OF THE NOTTINGHAM 



MEETING. 



On Wednesday, September i, at 8.30 p.m., the Inaugural General Meeting 

 was held in the Albert Hall, Derby Road, when the Rt. Worshipful the 

 Lord Mayor of Nottingham (Councillor A. E. Purser) welcomed the 

 Association to Nottingham. The President of the Association, Prof. Sir 

 Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., delivered an address (for which see p. i) 

 entitled The History of Evolutionary Thought, as recorded at Meetings of the 

 British Association. 



Evening Discourses were delivered to the Members as follows : 



(i) Friday, September 3, Great Hall, University College, at 8.30 p.m. 



Dr. R. E. Slade : Grass and the National Food Supply. (See p. 457.) 

 (2) Monday, September 6, Albert Hall, Derby Road, at 8.30 p.m.. 



Prof. J. Gray, F.R.S. : The Mentality of Fishes. 



Public lectures were delivered as follows : 

 Lincoln. 



Mr. R. Kay Gresswell : Rivers and Waterways. At the New Co-operative 

 Hall, Lincoln, on Friday, September 3, at 8 p.m. 



Mansfield. 



Prof. J. Walton : Coal and its Origin. At the Lecture Theatre, 

 Technical College, Mansfield, on Friday, September 3, at 7.30 p.m. 



Nottingham. 



Prof. H. Hartridge, F.R.S. : Illusions of Colour. At the Hippodrome 

 Picture Theatre, Theatre Square, Nottingham, on Sunday, September 5, 

 at 8.15 p.m. 



Derby. 



Sir Gilbert Walker, C.S.L, F.R.S. : The Mechanics of Sport. At the 

 Guildhall, Derby, on Monday, September 6, at 8 p.m. 



Newark-on-Trent. 



Mr. T. M. Herbert : The Transport of Food. At the County Technical 

 College, Newark-on-Trent, on Monday, September 6, at 7.30 P.M. 



Long Eaton. 



Dr. J. E. R. Constable : Science in Every-day Life. At the County 

 Secondary School, Long Eaton, on Tuesday, September 7, at 8 P.M. 



A lecture to school children was given by Dr. Alexander Wood on 

 Noise, at the Cottesmore School Hall, Derby Road, Nottingham, on 

 Friday, September 3, at 2.30 p.m. 



