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in 1881, when the association met for the 

 fifty-first time and celebrated its jubilee. Lord 

 Avebury (then Sir John Lubbock) presided, 

 and the growth of the association during the 

 half-century was indicated by the attendance, 

 which, though not the largest recorded during 

 the interval, numbered 2,557 persons. When 

 the association meets in York next summer 

 for the fourth time it will have attained the 

 respectable age of 75 years. The president- 

 elect is Professor Eay Lankester, and the list 

 of sectional presidents and vice-presidents, as 

 now appointed by the council, is as follows: 



Section A (Mathematical and Physical Sci- 

 ence) : President, Principal ,E. H. Griffiths ; 

 vice-presidents. Professor A. E. Forsyth and 

 Professor H. L. Callendar. 



Section B (Chemistry) : President, Pro- 

 fessor Wyndham Dunstan; vice-presidents, 

 Mr. G. T. Beilby and Professor A. Smithells. 



Section C (Geology) : President, Mr. G. "W. 

 Lamplugh; vice-presidents. Professor H. A. 

 Miers and Professor J. W. Gregory. 



Section D (Zoology) : President, Mr. J. J. 

 Lister; vice-presidents, Mr. G. A. Boulenger 

 and Mr. A. E. Shipley. 



Section E (Geography) : President, Sir 

 George Taubman Goldie ; vice-presidents. Dr. 

 J. Scott Keltic and Major Close. 



Section F (Economic Science and Statis- 

 tics) : President, Sir George S. Gibb ; vice- 

 presidents, Eev. Dr. W. Cunningham and Mr. 



Section G (Engineering) : President, Mr. J. 

 A. Ewing; vice-presidents. Sir Colin Scott 

 Moncrieff and Mr. W. Cudworth. 



Section H (Anthropology) : President, Mr. 



E. Sidney Hartland; vice-presidents. Dr. A. C. 

 Haddon and Mr. D. G. Hogarth. 



Section I (Physiology) : President, Pro- 

 fessor Francis Gotch; vice-presidents, Colonel 

 D. Bruce and Dr. Bevan-Lewis. 



Section K (Botany) : President, Professor 



F. W. Oliver; vice-presidents, Mr. Harold 

 Wager and Dr. D. H. Scott. 



Section L (Educational Science) : Presi- 

 dent, Professor M. E. Sadler; vice-presidents, 

 Mr. Grant Ogilvie, Sir Philip Magnus, M.P., 

 and Mr. Dyke-Acland. 



As regards the medal fund which was started 

 last year to commemorate the visit of the 

 British Association to South Africa, it is pro- 

 posed to call a meeting of the subscribers to 

 be held on March 2, for the purpose of re- 

 ceiving the report of the executive committee. 

 We understand that subscriptions have been 

 promised to the amount of over £700, and 

 since the council of the association has re- 

 solved to add to the fund the balance of the 

 special funds raised to meet the expenses of 

 the South Africa meeting, the total sum to be 

 disposed of is between £1,500 and £1,600. 

 Finished sketches of obverse and reverse de- 

 signs for the proposed medal have been pre- 

 pared by Mr. F. Bowcher, and will be laid 

 before the subscribers by the executive com- 

 mittee. The committee's report, of which the 

 adoption will be moved by Sir George Darwin, 

 the president of the South Africa meeting, 

 recommends that the fund, together with a die 

 for the medal, he offered to the president and 

 council of the British Association for trans- 

 mission to South Africa, there to be held in 

 trust by the South African Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. It is proposed that 

 the medal, struck in bronze, together with the 

 balance of the income on the fund after pay- 

 ing for the medal, shall he awarded 'for 

 achievement and promise in scientific research 

 in South Africa,' and that as far as circum- 

 stances shall allow, the award shall he made 

 annually. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 We regret to learn that Dr. S. P. Langley, 

 secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, died 

 on February 27. 



Sir William Crookes has been elected a 

 corresponding member of the physical section 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences in succes- 

 sion to the late M. Bichat. 



St. Andrews University has conferred the 

 degree of LL.D. on Dr. Albert C. L. G. 

 Gunther, of London, the well-known authority 

 on reptiles and birds. 



The Geological Society of London, at its 

 annual meeting on February 16 elected the 

 following officers: President, Sir Archibald 



