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SCIENCE. 



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of the army of science— a section which at 

 the same time performs a most useful func- 

 tion, as without such a body the receipts 

 at the previous meeting would not have 

 amounted to the considerable sum of 

 £3,369, enabling the association to allot 

 grants for scientific investigation amount- 

 ing to £1,083. What may be called the 

 ■outside attractions of the second South- 

 port meeting will be many. The local 

 •committee have exerted themselves to the 

 utmost to make the meeting in this respect 

 a thoroiigh success, and it is to be hoped 

 that the meteorologists, who are to have a 

 special conference in connection with the 

 meeting, will take measures to provide the 

 kind of weather which they may be sure 

 their hosts are praying for. 



The scientific attractions of the neighbor- 

 hood will be fully dealt with in the hand- 

 book which is in preparation. Ample 

 provision has been made for the usual 

 entertainments in the way of receptions and 

 excursions. A reception by the mayor of 

 Southport in the municipal buildings is 

 announced for Thursday evening, Septem- 

 ber 10, and on the following afternoon 

 there will be a garden party, also given 

 by the mayor, in Hesketh Park. Satur- 

 day will, as usual, be a free day so far 

 as the work of the sections is concerned. 

 Arrangements have been made for a num- 

 ber of excursions to places of interest in 

 the surrounding country, including Wind- 

 ermere, and also for visits to Chester and 

 Manchester. This last should prove es- 

 pecially attractive to members who wish 

 to combine solid instruction with their 

 pleasure, as those taking part in the ex- 

 cursion will be conducted over the works 

 of the British Westinghouse Electrical and 

 Manufacturing company. The company 

 has kindly promised to provide luncheon 

 for the visitors, and opportunity will be 

 afforded to the party of viewing the new 



technical school, the John Eylands Library 

 and the Chetham Hospital. On either 

 Monday or Tuesday a garden party will 

 be given by Sir George Pilkington, who is 

 this year one of the vice-presidents of the 

 meeting, and on the evening of the latter 

 day the local committee has arranged to 

 entertain the association at a conversazione 

 in the municipal buildings. Interest in 

 the sectional meetings has, it is to be 

 feared, generally begun to wane by the 

 concluding day of the gathering, and ac- 

 cordingly there have been arranged for the 

 afternoon of Wednesday certain excursions 

 which, though unofficial, will probably at- 

 tract a good many of the members. These 

 are to Messrs. Lever's well-known model 

 village. Port Sunlight, the Diamond Match 

 Works at Seaforth, and the Cunai'd 

 steamship Lucania. Members will also be 

 given on the following day the opportunity 

 of visiting various industrial enterprises 

 of interest, including Avorks for the manu- 

 facture of watches, a Lancashire industiy 

 which, after falling on evil days, has been 

 revived with a considerable measure of 

 success. 



The accommodation for the sectional 

 work of the meeting seems to be ample. 

 The opening meeting on the evening of 

 September 9, when the president. Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, will deliver his inaugural 

 address, will be held in the opera house. 

 while the three evening lectures will be 

 delivered in the Cambridge-hall. The first 

 of these, on Friday evening, will be by Dr. 

 Robert Munroe, on 'Man as an Artist and 

 Sportsman in the Paleolithic Period.' Tho 

 J'londay evening discourse will be by Dr. 

 Arthur Rowe, on 'The Old Chalk Sea 

 and some of its Teachings,' while the lec- 

 ture to working men on Saturday evenini;' 

 will be by Dr. J. S. Flett, who will give an 

 account of his observations on the recent 

 volcanic eruptions in the West Indies. 



