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opened by Mr. C. F. Bickerdike. Another 

 discussion on Irish Finance will be opened by 

 Professor C. H. Oldham. There will also be 

 papers on " Variation of Wages," by M. 

 Waxweiler, the Director of the Institut Sol- 

 vay, Brussels ; on " Destitution," by Mr. C. J. 

 Hamilton ; " Prison Reform," by Miss C. 

 Smith Eonic ; " The Merchant Service," by 

 Mr. W. J. Hinton ; " English Beet Sugar In- 

 dustry," by Mr. Sigmund Stein, and the 

 " State of Economic Science," by Mr. E. S. 

 Grogan. 



Section G (Engineering), which will meet 

 under the presidency of Professor J. H. Biles, 

 will have under consideration a number of 

 subjects of great interest and importance. 

 Besides the joint discussion with Section A 

 on Aeronautics, to which reference has al- 

 ready been made, there will be a discussion 

 on the respective merits of Super-Heated 

 Steam Engines, Suction Gas Plants and 

 Diesel Engines. Papers on these subjects 

 wiU be contributed by Captain H. Eiall 

 Sankey, Mr. Tookey and Mr. Charles Day. 

 It is hoped that Professor T. W. Howe will 

 be able to show some interesting experiments 

 on wireless telegraphy, and that Captain 

 Sankey will be able to exhibit a portable 

 wireless telegraphy equipment. Several papers 

 relating to ships will be presented, dealing 

 with recent improvements such as the Gyro- 

 Compass (Mr. G. K. B. Elphinstone) , Elec- 

 trical Steering (Mr. B. P. Haigh), Electrical 

 Drives for Ships' Propellers (Mr. H. A. 

 Moor), and Marine Engines adapted for 

 Burning Crude Oil (Mr. J. H. Eosenthal). 

 Other papers will deal with the problem of 

 Smoke Abatement (Dr. J. S. Owens), the 

 Origin and Production of Corruption on 

 Tramway Rails (Mr. Worby Beaumont), and 

 the Vibragraph (Mr. Digby). 



The president of Section H (Anthropology) 

 will be Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, who will devote 

 lis address to a " Consideration of Ethnolog- 

 ical Analysis of Culture." He will direct at- 

 tention to the complexity of cultures often 

 -supposed to be simple and primitive, and will 

 urge that the analysis of this complexity is a 

 necessary preliminary to the study of the 



origin and development of institutions. The 

 principles on which the analysis should be 

 based will also be considered. As usual, a 

 large number of papers on separate topics will 

 be presented to the section, but a general dis- 

 cussion on the subject of totemism has been 

 arranged. To this discussion papers will be 

 contributed by Dr. A. C. Haddon, Dr. Kohler, 

 Professor Graebner, M. A. van Geneep, Pro- 

 fessor Hutton Webster, Dr. Goldweiser and 

 Mr. Andrew Lang; it is hoped that Dr. C. G. 

 Seligmann, Professor Eraser, Mr. R. R. 

 Marett, M. Waxweiler, Mr. E. Thurston and 

 Mr. E. S. Hartland will also take part in the 

 discussion. The Roman portraits recently 

 discovered in Egypt will be described by Pro- 

 fessor H. M. Flinders Petrie, and some 

 " Paintings in the Temple of the Tiger at 

 Chichen Itza," by Miss A. C. Breton. The 

 archeology of Peru will be discussed in a 

 paper by Dr. Max Uhle. Major A. J. N. 

 Tremeame has promised some " Notes on 

 Hausa Folklore," and M. Malinowski a 

 paper on the " Nature of the Australian Fam- 

 ily." Ancient Britain will provide subjects 

 for a number of papers, Mr. A. L. Lewis 

 dealing with " Dolmens and Cromlechs," 

 Mr. R. R. Marett with the " Recent Discov- 

 ery of Pleistocene Man in Jersey," and Mr. 

 W. Dale with "Prehistoric Man in Hamp- 

 shire." " Paleolithic Man " wiU furnish the 

 subject of a paper by Dr. A. Keith. Dr. F. 

 C. Shrubsall wiU discuss the " Anthropology 

 of Wessex," and " Some Unpublished Meas- 

 urements of the Inhabitants of Dorset " will 

 be presented by Mr. J. Gray. 



Professor J. S. Macdonald, of Sheffield 

 University, will preside over the deliberations 

 of the physiologists (Section I). This sec- 

 tion is one of those which usually receive a 

 number of highly specialized papers capable 

 of fuU appreciation only by the select few. 

 This year, in addition to such contributions 

 there will be three discussions of a wider 

 range of interest, one on Sight Tests for 

 Seamen, to be opened by Dr. C. F. Myers, 

 followed by Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green ; 

 another on Ventilation in Confined Quarters, 

 especially in Relation to Ships, to be opened 



