The Bkitish Association at Sheffield. 



2.5 



NOTICES OF BOOKS, &c. — " Hepatite Britannice Exsiccat.^/' 

 Fasc. II. — We are glad to announce the appearance of this exsiccata, 

 containing Nos. 76 to 150, The names of Messrs. Benj. Carrington, 

 M.D., F.R.S.E., and Wm. H. Pearson, its authors, are quite sufficient 

 to recommend it. Applications and communications should be made to 

 Dr. Carrington, Eccles, or JNIr. Pearson, 115, Chiu-ch-street, Pendleton. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 faU. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



heaviest 

 Fall. 





Days 



1879. 



1878. 



Fall. 



HUDDEKSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Eobson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



3-23 



20 



17-50 



* 17-20 



13 



0-46 



Leeds ... (H. Crowther) ... 



183 



3-02 



22 







19 



0-50 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Eawson) 



360 



570 



19 



25-39 



22.25 







Baensley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



3-64 



21 



18-45 



11-96 



12 



0.72 



Ingbiechwokth (do.) 



853 



5-14 



20 



22-68 



19-44 



8 



0-63 



Wei^twokth Castle (do.)... 



520 



3-83 



18 



19-84 



32-64 



13 



0-72 



GOOLE ... 



25 



4-14 



20 



15-39 



10-45 



19 



0-96 



* This is the average to date for 13 years, 1866-78. 



lEi^gorls £)f Sorhfos, 



THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT SHEFFIELD. 

 The 49th annual meeting was opened on the 20th August, under the 

 presidency of Dr. AUman, F.R.S., &c. Amongst the distinguished 

 savans present were the ex-president, William Spottiswoode, Sir John 

 Lubbock, Prof. Huxley, Prof. WiUiamson (Owen's Coll.), Prof. P. M. 

 Duncan, Dr. Evans, Comm. Cameron, R.N., Prof. Newton, of Yale 

 CoUege, Conn., Clements P. Markham, Major Serpa Pinto, Dr. H. C. 

 Sorby, &c., &c. 



The President's Address was devoted chiefly to a discussion of the lower 

 forms of life, commencing with a history and definition of the terms 

 sarcode and protoplasm, passing from Huxley's Batliyhius upwards through 

 the Protamceba (Monera), the Amceba, the condition of the egg, the 

 spectroscopic relations of chlorophyll, &c. " When, however, we say 

 that life is a property of protoplasm, we assert as much as we are justified 

 in doing. Here we stand upon the boundary between life in its proper 

 conception, as a group of phenomena having irritability as their common 

 bond, and that other and higher group of phenomena we designate as 

 consciousness or thought, and which, however intimately connected with 

 those of life, are yet essentially distinct from them." The concluding 

 paragraph is well worthy of quotation : - ' ' We are not, however, on that 



