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for the General Committee, another for representatives of the 

 press, a drawing-room for ladies, a smoking-room for gentlemen, 

 and a parcel and lost-property office. The Durham College of 

 Medicine was temporarily used for these purposes at Newcastle. 

 At Bath, in 1888, there was no such building available, and a 

 temporary one was constructed of corrugated iron. 



The British Association changes its place of meeting annually ; 

 and of its fifty-nine meetings all but one have been held, usually 

 more than once in each, in all the principal towns of the United 

 Kingdom. Once (in 1884), it has met in Canada, at Montreal. 



Having thus briefly sketched the objects, constitution, and 

 acquirements of the Association, I will now advert to some of the 

 more important features of the last meeting in Newcastle. The 

 first actual business was a meeting of Council, at 10 a.m. on 

 Sept. nth, for the purpose of concluding the final preliminary 

 arrangements. This was followed at ir a.m. by a meeting of the 

 Organising Committees, for the purpose of obtaining information 

 upon the reports and memoirs to be submitted to the meeting, 

 and of arranging the order in which it might appear desirable that 

 they should be read. The Sectional Committees met at 2 p.m. ; 

 and arranged the list of communications to be read on the morrow, 

 and settled the general distribution of business for the week. At 

 the same hour there was a meeting of the General Committee ; 

 at which the retiring President, Sir Frederick Bramwell, and the 

 President elect, Prof. W. H. Flower, and a large number of the 

 other officials were present. This meeting was held for the pur- 

 pose of receiving the report of the Council, appointing sectional 

 officers and a Committee of Recommendation. 



Sir Douglas Galton then read the Annual Report, a somewhat 

 lengthy document, containing references to all the more important 

 matters which have been considered by the Council during the 

 year. The only points in it that need be noticed here are that of 

 the ^32 11 drawn last year at Bath ^1511 had been paid away 

 in " grants in aid of various branches of scientific inquiry" ; and 

 that the Corresponding Societies Committee was re-appointed, 

 the members being Mr. Francis Galton, Chairman ; Prof. R. 

 Meldola, Secretary; Prof. A. W. Williamson, Sir Douglas Galton, 

 Prof. Boyd-Dawkins, Sir Rawson Rawson, Dr. J. G. Garson, Di. 

 J. Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. W. Whitaker, Mr. G. J. Symons, 

 General Pitt-Rivers, Mr. W. Topley, and Prof. T. G. Bonney. 



