54 Report of Delegate to Corresponding Societies' Conference. 



be glad to take charge of any photographs, and the names of 

 senders would be published in the annual report of the British 

 Association. 



As items of general interest to our members, I may mention 

 that our distinguished fellow-member. Dr. J. Larmour, presided 

 over Section A, and delivered a characteristic address- 

 Professor John Perry, another distinguished student of Q.C.B., 

 now President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, also 

 took an active part. Professor Letts, who is making the new 

 Queen's College Laboratory the home of important original 

 research, read several papers, and I had the honour of exhibit- 

 ing the viagraph (including the usual striking diagram of the 

 Lisburn Road) at the Lord Mayor's conversazione and before 

 Section G, where there was also read a paper by Professor Hele 

 Shaw on "Tractive Force on Roads." Subsequently the 

 Association appointed a committee to further investigate this 

 question. As your President I was honoured by a request to 

 act as first spokesman of the deputation to invite the Associa- 

 tion to Belfast in 1902. Professors Letts and Symington and 

 Mr. W. Gray added their promises of welcome, in which I 

 doubt not the city will generously bear us out." 



