views as given in " Reign of Law " and " Primeval Man,'' or " The Unity 

 of Nature," were far from squaring with those of Charles Darwin or Professor 

 Tyndall, but then it is the glory of the Society that men of every intelligent view 

 have a fair hearing and full respect shown to their views. 



THE SUB-DIVISIONS. 



The breadth of the conception of the Association is shown in its different 

 sections. These are: 



A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 



B. Chemistry. 



C. Geology. 



D. Zoology. 



E. Geography. 



F. Economic Science and Statistics. 



G. Engineering. 

 H. Anthropology. 

 I. Physiology. 



K. Botany. 



L. Educational Science. 



The large share given to Biology is perfectly natural. In a world, where 

 the question of life is so intensely important it is well to subject it to the closest 

 scrutiny. While Lord Lister, as President, added vastly to the means for the 

 preservation of life, one of the greatest Presidents who occupied the chair was 

 Professor Huxley. This was in 1870. While he was a controversialist who 

 " loved the rigor of the game," yet he was a vastly sympathetic and wholesome 

 man in his output. The presidential address of Huxley was a splendid vindica- 

 tion of the doctrine of Biogenesis or the Germ theory against that of Abio- 

 genesis or Spontaneous Generation. Huxley maintained the principle that 

 lies at the basis of modern medicine, and the knowledge of which enabled Lord 

 Lister to make practical applications, which have revolutionized the old methods 

 into really effective and life-saving processes. If anyone doubts the value of 

 Science to man let him read the peroration of Huxley's Presidential address when 

 he refers to the idea of Redi, worked out so completely by Pasteur, by which 

 fifty million pounds sterling was saved to the wine growers, and his statement 

 that the saving of this one scientist to France would go far to meet the total ex- 

 pense to his country of the Franco-Prussian war. 



