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a definite plan of work will be decided upon. 

 The officers elected at the initial meeting are: 

 President, Dr. David Starr Jordan ; Vice-presi- 

 dents, Professor C. F. Holder and Dr. F. W. 

 D'Evelyn; Secretary, W. Scott Way. 



As we have already announced, the British 

 Medical Association will hold its seventy- 

 fourth annual meeting this year in Toronto. 

 From the program, as published in the Eng- 

 lish journals, we note that thirteen scientific 

 sections have been arranged, and will meet 

 daily in the university buildings at 9:30 a.m., 

 namely, anatomy, dermatology, laryngology 

 and otology, medicine, obstetrics and gynecol- 

 ogy, ophthalmology, pediatrics, pathology and 

 bacteriology, physiology, psychology, state 

 medicine, surgery, and therapeutics. On 

 Tuesday, August 21, at 2:30 p.m., an address 

 of welcome will be accorded to members, and 

 the ceremony of introducing the distinguished 

 guests and delegates will be performed. This 

 will be immediately followed by the presiden- 

 tial address by Professor Reeve. At 4:30 p.m., 

 in the university quadrangle, a reception and 

 garden party by the president and Mrs. Reeve. 

 At 8 :30 an address in obstetrics will be de- 

 livered by Dr. W. S. A. Griffith, of London, 

 while at 9 :30 the lieutenant-governor will re- 

 ceive the members of the association. On 

 Wednesday, at 2 :30 p.m., an address in medi- 

 cine will be delivered by Sir James Barr, of 

 Liverpool; and in the afternoon various gar- 

 den parties have been arranged. In the even- 

 ing, at 8:30, an address in surgery will be de- 

 livered by Sir Victor Horsley, and this will be 

 followed by a reception, at 9:30 p.m. On 

 Thursday afternoon garden parties have also 

 been arranged, while at 7 :30 p.m. the president 

 will preside at the annual dinner, when a most 

 distinguished gathering is assured. On Fri- 

 day afternoon extensive entertainments are 

 promised to members and their friends, while 

 in the evening will be held a grand soiree. On 

 Saturday several excursions are arranged — to 

 Niagara Power Company's plant, through the 

 courtesy of Sir Henry M. Pellat; to Muskoka; 

 and to Lambton, through the courtesy of the 

 president, Mr. Austin. 



The London Times states that Mr. Sinclair, 

 M.P., secretary for Scotland, received in Edin- 

 burg, on July 1, deputations from the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Scottish 

 Geographical Society. The former urged the 

 claims of science in the readjustment of grants 

 in aid and in the allocation of national build- 

 ings contemplated in the National Galleries 

 Bill. In the bill, it was maintained no men- 

 tion whatever was made of science. The 

 financial clauses of the bill might, and prob- 

 ably would, be limited in their application to 

 art and to existing buildings. No direct pro- 

 vision was made for the representation of 

 science on the new board of trustees, as was 

 recommended by the departmental committee. 

 The new trustees might allocate the whole of 

 the buildings on the Mound to art and evict 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Lord Mc- 

 Laren, vice-president, stated the case on behalf 

 of the society, and was supported by Mr. J. W. 

 Gulland, M.P., Principal Sir William Turner, 

 Principal McKay, Dundee University College; 

 Professor Cash, Aberdeen University; Pro- 

 fessor Gray, Glasgow University, and Professor 

 Chrystal, secretary of the society. All pointed 

 to the important place occupied by the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh as a national institution 

 devoted to scientific research. The secretary 

 for Scotland, in his reply, said he recognized 

 most fully that the work of the Royal Society 

 was a national one. The proposals of the 

 government with regard to the buildings at 

 the Mound were to use the south building as 

 the National Gallery, and in the building next 

 Princes Street, known as the Royal Institu- 

 tion, to house the Royal Scottish Academy. 

 The effect of that rearrangement was that the 

 Royal Society would no longer find accom- 

 modation in the Royal Institution buildings; 

 but the government was prepared to meet the 

 reasonable demands of the society in a liberal 

 spirit. He asked them to prepare a scheme 

 for his consideration. He refused to commit 

 himself to an alternative scheme, whereby the 

 Royal Society and other scientific bodies in 

 Edinburgh would combine under one roof, 

 though he was ready to consider any proposal 

 put before him, provided the financial arrange- 

 ments were reasonable. To the deputation of 



