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the last day M. Bodio was elected President, the Vice- 

 presidents and Secretary were re-elected, and Major Craigie 

 was elected Treasurer in the place of Sir A. Bateman, who 

 resigned. Mr. Rew was elected auditor (with M. de Foville) 

 in the place of the late Mr. Hendriks. Among the new 

 members elected was Mr. W. G. S. Adams, of the Irish 

 Department of Agriculture. 



The work of the session was divided between four sections, 

 viz.: (i) methods and mathematical statistics; (ii) demo- 

 graphy; (iii) economic statistics; (iv) social statistics. 



Section I. marks a new departure in the organisation of 

 the Institute, and recognises the increasing attention now 

 being given to the theoretical side of statistical work. English 

 statisticians, as represented by Prof. Edgeworth (who was 

 elected president of the section), and Messrs. Bowley and 

 Yule took a very prominent part in the work of this section. 

 In a valuable paper by Mr. Yule on the application of the 

 method of correlation to problems of social statistics, illustra- 

 tions were given from the British agricultural statistics, and 

 allusion was made to the work of Mr. Hooker in connection 

 with the development of the uses of correlation as applied to 

 agricultural and meteorological data. Committees were ap- 

 pointed to consider (1) the teaching of statistics, and (2) 

 technical methods of statistical comparison, and Messrs. 

 Bowley, Edgeworth, and Yule were elected members of both. 



The work of the demographic section had no special agri- 

 cultural interest, though a paper by M. Meuriot on "Urban 

 Agglomerations " touched incidentally on a cognate subject, 

 and a committee was nominated to study the question. 



In the economic sectipn considerable attention was devoted 

 to the question of returns of the price of cereals. M. Levas- 

 seur gave a historical summary of the course of wheat prices 

 in England, France, Belgium, Prussia, Austria, Hungary, 

 Italy, Sweden, and the United States. M. Paisant, Secretary 

 of the Committee on the Sale of Wheat of the Agricultural 

 Syndicates of France, gave an interesting account of the 

 system adopted for the collection of market prices. The 

 Committee on Corn Prices was re-appointed and augmented, 

 its members now being M. Faure, Sir Athelstane Baines, 

 Dr. Bela Foldes, M. Tisserand, Major Craigie, and Mr. 



