BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OP SCIENCE. 



NOTTINGHAM MEETING, AUGUST 22, 1866. 



President— W. R. Grove, Esq., M.A., Q.C., F.R.S., &c. 



GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS. 



Wednesday, August 22. — President's Address, at 8 p.m., in the Theatre. 



Sectional Meetings as usual, from the 23rd to the 28th inclusive. 



Thursday, August 23. — Soiree in Exhibition Building. 



Friday, August 24. — Lecture at 8.30 p.m., in the Theatre, by W. Huggins, Esq., 

 F.R.S., F.R.A.S., On the Results of Spectrum Analysis applied to the Heavenly 

 Bodies. 



Monday, August 27.— Lecture by J. D. Hooker, Esq., M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c, 

 On Insular Floras. 



Tuesday, August 28. — Soiree in the Exhibition Building. 



Saturday, August 25. — Excursions to the Midland Railway Works at Derby, East- 

 wood, Riddings, Cinder Hill, Annesley, and Newstead Abbey. 



Thursday, August 30. — Excursions to the Derwent and Wye Valleys, Charnwood 

 Forest, and Belvoir Castle. 



On and after July 30, until August 1 7, Life Members who intend to be present 

 at the Meeting may receive their Tickets by applying to the General Treasurer 

 and returning to him their Life Member Invitation Circular ; Annual Subscribers 

 who wish to receive their Tickets must return their Invitation Circular, with 1 I. 

 enclosed, to the General Treasurer, W. Spottiswoode, Esq., 50 Grosvenor Place, 

 London, S.W. 



The Executive Committee at Nottingham will elect New Members and Asso- 

 ciates on the following conditions : — 



New Life Members, for a composition of ^10, which entitles them to receive 

 gratuitously the Reports of the Association which may be published after the date 

 of payment. 



New Annual Subscribers, for a payment of £2 for the first year. These receive 

 gratuitously the Reports for the year of their admission, and for every following 

 year in which they continue to pay a subscription of £1 without intermission. 



Associates for this Meeting only, for a payment of £\. They are entitled to 

 receive the Report of the Meeting at two-thirds of the publication price. 



Ladies may become Members on the same terms as Gentlemen, and Ladies' 

 Tickets (transferable to Ladies only) may be obtained by Members on payment 

 oS£\. 



After August 1 7, personal application for Tickets must be made at the Recep- 

 tion Room, Corn Exchange, Nottingham, which will be opened on Monday, 

 August 20. 



In order to facilitate arrangements for the Meeting, it is desirable that applica- 

 tion for Tickets should be made as early as possible. 



Gentlemen who have in any former year been admitted Members of the Asso- 

 ciation may, on this occasion, renew their Membership v\ ithout being called upon 

 for arrears, on payment of £1. 



Without a proper ticket, obtained as above, no person will be admitted to any 

 of the meetings. 



Notices of Papers proposed to be read should be sent to the Assistant General 

 Secretary, G. Griffith, M.A., 5 Park Villas, Oxford, before August 1. 



Members and Associates intending to be present at the Meeting are requested 

 to apply to the Local Secretaries, who will assist them in procuring lodgings, and 

 will forward a railway pass, entitling the holder to obtain from the principal Rail- 

 way Companies a return ticket at a single fare, available from Monday, August 20, 

 to Saturday,. September 1, inclusive. 



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