July 28, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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THE HULL MEETING OF THE BRITISH 

 ASSOCIATION 



The association meets from September 6 to 

 13 under the presidency of Sir C. S. Sherring- 

 ton, Waynflete professor of physiology at Ox- 

 ford, who will succeed Sir Edward Thorpe. 



The London Times states that the presiden- 

 tial address will be on "Some aspects of animal 

 mechanism." In the course of the meeting 

 there will also be two evening discourses, the 

 first by Professor W. Garstang on "Fishing: 

 old ways and new," and the second, which will 

 raise a question that created great interest at 

 the last meeting in Edinburgh, by Dr. F. W. 

 Aston, F.R.S., on "The atoms of matter: their 

 size, number and construction." An interest- 

 ing part of the proceedings will be the series 

 of Citizens' Lectures, in development of the 

 movement started by Huxley in the "sixties." 

 These lectures will be four in number. Dr. 

 E. H. Grifaths, F.E.S., will speak on "The 

 conservation and dissipation of energy," Sir 

 Westcott Abell, of Lloyd's Register, on the 

 "Story of the ship"; Dr. Smith Woodward, of 

 the Natural History Museum, on the "Ances- 

 tors of man"; and Professor A. P. Coleman, 

 Toi-onto, on "Labrador." There will also be 

 special lectures for children, at which Pro- 

 fessor H. H. Turner, F.R.S., will speak on 

 "The telescope and what it tells us," Professor 

 J. Arthur Thomson on "Creatures of the sea," 

 and Mr. F. Debenham on "The Antarctic." 



Since the program was first arranged Dr. 

 W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S., president-elect of 

 the Psychology Section, who was to have 

 spoken on "The herd instinct and human soci- 

 ety," has died, and his place will be taken by 

 Dr. C. S. Myers, F.R.S., who will speak on 

 the influence of the late Dr. Rivers on the 

 development of psychology in Great Britain. 

 The following are the titles of the other ad- 

 dresses to be given by sectional presidents : 



Mathematics and Physics: Professor 6. H. 

 Hardy, P.R.S., ' ' The theory of numbers. ' ' 



Chemistry: Principal J. C. Irvine, F.R.8., "Ee- 

 aearch problems in the sugar group. ' ' 



Geology: Professor P. F. Kendall, "The phys- 

 ical geography of the coal swaimps. ' ' 



Zoology: Dr. E. J. Allen, F.K.S., "The pro- 

 gression of Mf e in the sea. ' ' 



Geography : Dr. Marion Newbigin, ' ' Human 

 geography: first principles and some applica- 

 tions. ' ' 



Economics: Professor F. Y. Edgeworth, "Equal 

 pay to men and women for equal work. ' ' 



Engineering: Professor T. Hudson Beare, 

 ' ' Railway problems in Australia. ' ' 



Anthropology: Mr. H. J. E. Peake, "The study 

 of man. ' ' 



Physiology: Professor E. P. Gathcart, F.E.S., 

 ' ' The efficiency of man and the factors which 

 influence it. ' ' 



Botany: Professor H. H. Dixon, F.R.S., "The 

 transport of organic substances in plants. ' ' 



Education: Sir R. Gregory, "Educational and 

 school science." 



Agriculture: Lord Bledisloe, "The proper po- 

 sition of the landowner in relation to the agricul- 

 tural industry. ' ' 



The special interest of Hull as a fishing 

 center will receive prominent attention in a 

 series of sectional discussions dealing with the 

 North Sea. On the more technical side, a 

 discussion of intense interest will be that on 

 "The origin of magnetism," which will be 

 opened by Professor P. Langevin, Paris, and 

 in which Professor P. Weiss, Strasbourg, will 

 also take part. Another subject to be dis- 

 cussed is that "Economic periodicity," which 

 arises out of the theory expressed by Sir Wil- 

 liam Beveridge that there is a bad time coming 

 in a few years. Lord Haldane will lecture on 

 "The ideal of our national education," and, 

 among the other topics which will be dealt with 

 are "Training in citizenship," "Psycho-analysis 

 and the school," "Vitamins," "The present 

 position of Darwinism," "The possibility of 

 increasing the food supply of Great Britain," 

 and "Our bones and teeth" (the latter, a lec- 

 ture by Professor W. D. Halliburton, F.R.S.). 



A special effort is being made this year to 

 attract the younger generation of students. 

 Thanks to the beneficent gift of £10,000 of 

 War Stock recently handed over to the asso- 

 ciation by Sir Charles A. Parsons, the associa- 

 tion has offered a certain number of exhibitions 

 to universities and university colleges in Great 

 Britain. 



