June I, 1888.J 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



527 



ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



The British Association. — At the 5Sth annual meeting 

 of this association, which will begin at Bath on Wednesday, 

 September 5, the president will be Sir Fredericlc J. Bramvvell, 

 D.C.L., F.R.S., M.Inst.C.E. The vice-presidents will be the 

 Right. Hon. the Earl of Cork and Orrery, K.P., Lord Lieu- 

 tenant of Somerset ; the Most Noble the iVIarquis of Bath, 

 the Right. Hon., and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bath and 

 Wells, D.D., Right Rev. the Bishop of Clifton, L».D.,the Right 

 Worshipful the iWayor of Bath, the Right Worshipful the 

 Mayor of Bristol, Sir F. A, Abel, C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., 

 V.P.C.S., the Venerable the Archdeacon of Bath, D.D., the 

 Rev. Leonard Blomefield, M A., F.L.S., F.G.S., Professor 

 Michael Foster, M.A., M.D., LL.D., Sec.R.S., F.L.S., F.C.S., 

 Mr. W. S. Gore-Langton, J. P., D.L., Mr. H. D. Skrine, J. P., 

 D.L„ Mr. E. R. AVodehouse, M.P., Colonel R. P. Laurie, 

 M.P., Mr. Jerome Murch, J. P., D.L. The local secretaries 

 for the meeting will be Mr. W. Pumphrey, Mr. J. L. Stothert, 

 M.Inst.C.E., Mr. B. H. Watts; and the local treasurers, Mr. 

 A. Hammond, Mr. J. Murch, and Mr. John Stone. The 

 officers for the sections will be as follows : — A. — Mathe- 

 matical and Physical Science. — President, Professor G. F. 

 Fitzgerald, M.A., F.R.S ; vice-presidents. Captain Abney, 

 R.E., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.C.S., William Esson, M.A., F,R.S., 

 F.R.A.S., F.C.S. ; secretaries, R. E. Baynes, M.A. (Recorder), 

 R. T. Glazebrook, M.A., F.R.S., Professor H. Lamb, M.A., 

 F.R.S., W. N. Shaw, M.A. B. — Chemical Science. — 

 President, Professor W. A. Tilden, D.Sc, F.R.S. V.P.C.S. ; 

 vice-presidents, Professor Odling, M.B., F.R.S., V.P.C.S., 

 W. H. Perkin, Ph.D., F.R.S., V.P.C.S; secretaries. Professor 

 H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., F.C.S., H. Forster Morley, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.C.S. (Recorder), R. E. Moyle, B.A., F.C.S., Dr. 

 W. W. J. Nicol, M.A., F.R,S.E. C— Geology.— President, 

 Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., F.R,S., F.G.S., F.S.A. ; 

 vice-presidents, W. Whitaker, B,A., F.R.S., F.G.S., Rev. 

 H. H. Winwood, M.A., F.G.S. ; secretaries, Professor G. A. 

 Lebour, M.A., F.G.S., W. .Topley, F.G.S. (Recorder); W. 

 W. Watts, M.A., F.G.S., H. B. Woodward, F.G.S. D.— 

 Biology.— President, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, C.M.G., M.A., 

 B.Sc, F.R.S., F.L.S. ; vice-presidents. Professor E. A. 

 Schafer, F.R.S., P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., F.R.G.S., Sec. Z.S. ; secretaries, C. Bailey, F.L.S., 

 F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.Z.S., S. F. Harmer, B.Sc, Walter 

 Heape, M.A. (Recorder), Professor H. Marshall Ward, M.A., 

 F.L.S. E. — Geography. — iPresident, Colonel Sir C. W. 

 Wilson, R.E„ K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.C.L., F.R..S., F.R.G.S. ; 

 vice-presidents, the Right Hon. Lord Aberdare, G.C.B., 

 F.R.S., V.P.R.G.S., E. Delmar Morgan, F.R.G.S. ; secretaries, 

 J. S. Keltic, F.R.G.S., H. J. Mackinder, M.A., F.R.G.S., E. G. 

 Ravenstein, iF.R.G.S. (Recorder). F. — Economic S'cience 

 and Statistics. — President, the Right Hon. Lord Bramwell, 

 F.R.S., F.S.S. ; vice-presidents, J. B. Martin, M.A., F.S.S., 

 R. H. Inglis Palgrave, F.R.S., F.S.S. ; secretaries, F. Y. 

 Edgeworth, M.A., F.S.S., T. H. Elliott, F.S.S. (Recorder), 

 Professor Foxwell, M.A., F.S.S., L. L. F. R. Price, B.A., 

 F.S.S. G. — Mechanical Science. — President, W. H. Preece, 

 F. R. S., M. Inst. C.E. ; vice-presidents, W. Anderson, 

 M.Inst.C.E., W. Shelford, M.Inst.C.E. ; secretaries, C. W. 

 Cooke, W. Bayley Marshall, E. Rigg, M.A. (Recorder). H. 

 — Anthropology. — President, Lieutenant-General Pitt-Rivers, 

 D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.S.A. ; vice-presidents, J. Beddoe, 

 M.D., F.R.S., J. Evans, D.C.L., LL.D., Treas.R.S., F.S.A., 

 F.L.S., F.G.S. ; (secretaries, G. W. Bloxam, M.A., F.L.S. 

 (Recorder), J. G. Garson, M.D., F.Z.S., M.A.I. The first 

 general meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 5, at 

 8 p.m. precisely, when Sir H. E. Roscoe, M.P., D.C.L., LL.D., 

 Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., will resign the chair, and Sir F. J. 

 Bramwell, D.C.L., F.R.S., M.Inst.C.E., president elect, will 

 assume the presidenc}', and deliver an address. On Thurs- 

 day evening, September 6, at 8 p.m., a soiree; on Friday 

 evening, September 7, at 8.30 p.m., a discourse on "The 

 Electrical Transmission of Power," by Professor W. E. Ayr- 

 ton, F.R.S. ; on Monday evening, September 10, at S.30 p.m., 

 a discourse on "The Foundation Stones of the Earth's 

 Crust," by Professor T. G. Bonney, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 F.S.A., F.G.S. ; on Tuesday evening, September u, atS p.m., 



a soirte; on Wednesday, September 12, the concluding 

 general meeting will be held at 2.30 p.m. Excursions to 

 places of interest in the neighbourhood of Bath will be made 

 on the afternoon of Saturday, September 8, and on Thursday, 

 September 13. 



International Geological Congress. — The meetings 

 will be held in the rooms of the University of London, 

 Burlington-gardens. The opening meeting will be held on 

 Monday evening, September 17th, when the council will be 

 appointed and the general order of business for the session 

 will be determined. The Congress will last during the 

 whole week, the ordinary meetings beginning at 10 a.m. 

 Among the subjects to be discussed are the Geological map 

 of Europe, the classification of the Cambrian and Silurian 

 rocks and of the tertiary strata, and some points of nomencla- 

 ture, etc., referring to the Congress, by the International 

 Commission. In addition to these questions, the organising 

 committee proposes to devote a special sitting to a discussion 

 of the crystalline schists. Contributions on the subject are 

 expected from several foreign specialists. An exhibition will 

 be held during the week of the Congress to which geolo- 

 gists are invited to send maps, recent memoirs, rocks, fossils, 

 etc. Excursions of the Congress will take place in the week 

 after the meeting (September 24th to 30th). The number of 

 these will depend upon the number of members desirous of 

 attending, and upon the districts which they most wish to 

 visit. The excursions at present arranged for are : — The Isle 

 of Wight, North Wales, West Yorkshire, and East Yorkshire. 

 Short excursions during the week of the Congress will 

 probably be made to Windsor and Etoh, St. Albans, Watford, 

 Brighton, Kew Gardens, and other places of interest. More- 

 over, everything will be done to accommodate foreign geolo- 

 gists who desire to make excursions to any particular districts. 

 The honorary president of the Congress will be Professor 

 Huxley ; the president, Professor Prestwich ; the vice- 

 presidents, the Director-General of the Geological Survey, 

 the President of the Geological Society, and Professor 

 McK. Hughes ; treasurer, Mr. F. W. Rudler ; and general 

 secretaries, Mr. J. W. Hulke and Mr. W. Topley. As 

 honorary members of the organising committee we find 

 the Chancellors of the various Universities, the Lord Mayor, 

 the President of the Royal Societ}', the Director of the 

 Ordnance Survey, the Hydrographer to the Admiralty, the 

 Directors of the Natural History Museum and of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew ; the Secretary of the Science and Art Depart- 

 ment, Sir J. D. Hooker; Sir Richard Owen, Sir A. C. 

 Ramsay, the presidents of the leading scientific societies, 

 and the leading geologists of the country. 



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DIARY FOR NEXT WEEK. 



Monday, Jimc 4. — Victoria Institute, at S p.m. — Annual Meeting. 



Society of Engineers, at 7.30 p.m. — Tlit 

 Acton Main Drainage I Forks ; by Mr. C, 

 N. Lailey. 



Society of Chemical Industry, at 8 p.m. — 

 Tin Mode of Usin^ Ciiar in StiQar-Re' 

 fining; by Messrs. E. E. R. and j. A. R. 

 Newlands. T/ie Adulteration of Olive Oil 

 and Method of Detection ; by Mr. T, 

 Bruce Warren. 



Royal Institution, at 5 p.m. — General 

 Monthly Meeting. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society, at 7.30 p.m. — 

 Reports of Rambles and Exhibits. 

 Tuesday, /itne 5' — Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — Conventions 

 and Conventionality in Art ; by Mr. S. 

 Colvin. 



Society of Biblical Archeology, at 8 p.m. — ■ 

 Les Actescoptes du Alartyre de St. Poly- 

 carpe ; by Professor Amelineau. Remarks 

 on some Unpublished CtmeiforTn Syllabaries 

 with respect to Prayers and Incantations 

 Written in Interlinear Form ; by Dr. 

 Bezold. The Kketta-Hatte and their 

 Allies ; by Rev. C. J. Ball. 

 Wednesday, Tune 6. — Entomological Society, at 7 p.m. 



