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sufficiently rapid method for determining 

 oxides in steel ? Who will first completely 

 investigate the relation between the chemis- 

 try and the chilling properties of cast iron ? 

 And who will first give us a study on the 

 form in which nitrogen occurs in this metal, 

 and a sufficiently rapid and accurate method 

 for its determination? Truly the harvest 

 of chemical work before us in connection 

 with iron and steel is bounteous. Will 

 the laborers be forthcoming to gather the 



harvest V 



C. B. Dudley. 

 Altoona, Pa. 



TORONTO MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



The local preparations for the meeting of 

 the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science to be held this year in 

 Toronto, commencing Wednesday, August 

 18th, have now after a year's work on the 

 part of the various local committees reached 

 a very advanced stage. The finance com- 

 mittee have been promised $27,500 to meet 

 the expenses of the occasion. The sectional 

 meetings are to take place in the buildings 

 of the University of Toronto, which are 

 centrally situated and which may be 

 reached from all points of the city by means 

 of the electric car system. As the Univer- 

 sity grounds are adjacent to the Queen's 

 park and in the residential portion of the 

 city, this arrangement will thus be a most 

 agreeable one for the visitors. The Presi- 

 dential addresses and the evening lectures 

 will be delivered in Massey Hall, which has 

 been recently erected and is capable of 

 holding about four thousand auditors. 



Perhaps the most difficult of all the 

 arrangements have been those pertaining 

 to the matter of steamship and railway 

 rates, but in these also very satisfactory 

 progress may be reported. The British 

 visitors will have reduced rates by the 

 Canadian lines from Liverpool. The Ca- 



nadian railways have made very important 

 reductions to members of the Association 

 who will travel in Canada between July 

 1st and September 30th. The Canadian 

 Pacific Kailway wUl give special rates also 

 to members who wish to visit the North- 

 west, British Columbia and the Pacific 

 coast. A large number of special excur- 

 sions have been organized, some of them 

 to take place during the meeting, others 

 immediately after its close. They will last 

 from two days to three weeks, and as the 

 weather will be cool, no doubt these trips 

 will be exceedingly pleasant for the mem- 

 bers. 



The retiring President is Lord Lister, 

 President of the Royal Society. The Presi- 

 dent-elect is Sir John Evans, K. C. B., 

 Treasurer of the Royal Society, who will 

 deliver the Presidential address on the 

 evening of the opening day. The Council 

 of the Association have chosen Presidents 

 for the majority of the Sections. Those 

 already appointed are: Mathematics and 

 Physics, Professor A. R. Forsyth, M. A. 



D. Sc, F. R. S.; Chemistry, Professor Wil- 

 liam Ramsay, Ph. D., F. R. S.; Geology, G. 

 M. Dawson, LL. D., F. R. S.; Zoology, 

 Professor Louis C. Miall, F. L. S., F. R. S.; 

 Economic Science and Statistics, Professor 



E. C. K. Gonner, M. A., F. S. S.; Anthro- 

 pology, Professor Sir William Turner, 

 LL. D., D. C. L., F. R. S.; Physiology, 

 Professor Michael Foster, LL. D., Sec. 

 R. S.; Botany, Professor H. Marshall 

 Ward, D. Sc, F. R. S. Professor James 

 Dewar, LL. D., F. R. S., and Mr. J. Milne, 



F. R. S. (late professor in the Imperial 

 University of Tokyo) have been appointed 

 to deliver the evening lectures. 



Amongst those who have promised to at- 

 tend are Lord Kelvin, Lord Lister, Sir 

 Henry Roscoe, F. R. S.; Sir Robert Ball, 

 Professors Viriamu Jones, LL. D., F. R. S.; 



G. Carey Foster, F. R. S.; J. S. Burdon- 

 Sanderson, LL. D., F. R. S.; A. W. Riicker, 



