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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT CARDIFF. 
Rev. E, P. KNUBLEY, M.A., M.B.O.U., 
Rector of Staveley; Delegate representing the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union on the General 
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ommittee of the Associa 8 
To the Executive Council of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. 
GENTLEMEN,—I have much pleasure in bringing before you the 
following notes of the meeting of the British Association held at 
Cardiff, from Wednesday, August 19th, to Wednesday, August 26th, 
‘891, under the presidency of W. Huggins, Esq., D.C.L., LL.D., 
F.R.S., Hon.F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S. 
Yorkshire was officially represented by three delegates, viz. : 
Mr. B. Holgate, F.G.S., representing the Leeds Geological Associa- 
tion; Mr. M. B, Slater, F.L.S., representing the Malton Field 
Naturalists’ and Scientific Society; and your Delegate, who repre- 
sented the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. In addition to the above 
the following Yorkshiremen served on one or other of the Sectional 
Committees :—A. H. Allen, F.C.S., G. Brook, F.L.S., Prof. A. 
Denny, F.L.S., J. Head, M.Inst.C.E., F.C.S., Sir I. Lowthian Bell; 
F.R.S., Prof. L. C. Miall, F.L.S., F.G.S., Prof. W. Stroud, H. Wager, 
C. T. Whitmell, M.A., and J. W. Woodall, M.A. 
The two evening lectures have an exceptional interest to our 
county in that they were delivered, the one by Prof. Miall, F.L.S., 
on ‘Some Difficulties in the Life of Aquatic Insects,’ and the other 
by Prof. Riicker, M.A., F.R.S., who discoursed on ‘Electrical Stress.’ 
The handbook which was presented to every member, besides 
containing much valuable information in regard to the growth and 
Present prosperity of the town of Cardiff, gave many interesting, not 
to say valuable, notes and lists of the geology of the neighbourhood, 
and of the Natural History, vertebrate and invertebrate, terrestrial 
and aquatic, phanerogamic and cryptogamic. 
The Council nominated Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S., Chairman, 
Dr. J. G. Garson, Vice-Chairman, and Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S., 
Secretary, to the Conference of Delegates. These nominations were 
confirmed by the General Committee at the meeting held at Cardiff 
on Wednesday, August rgth. The meetings of the Conference were 
held on Thursday, August zoth, at 3.30 p.m., and on Tuesday, 
_ August 25th, at 1 p-m., in the Dumfries Street Proprietary School. 
Thirty-six delegates were nominated by the Corresponding Societies 
ee entatives at the Cardiff meeting. 
