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Life members, 17; Old Annual members, 412: New Annual 

 members, 115; Associates, 1024; Ladies, 579; Foreign mem- 

 bers, 12 ; making a total of 2437, as compared with 1984 last 

 year at Bath, with 3838 at Manchester in 1887, and 2453 at 

 Birmingham in 1886. The Grants in aid of Scientific objects 

 amounted to ^£1265, whereas ^£15 11 was voted at Bath, ^1187 

 at Manchester, and ^995 at Birmingham. The grant of ^"20 in 

 aid of the Corresponding Societies has been again awarded for 

 the present year. 



The next meeting of the British Association will begin at 

 Leeds, on the 3rd September 1890, under the presidency of Sir 

 Frederick Augustus Abel, President of the Government Com- 

 mittee on Explosives, of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. In 1891 

 the meeting will be at Cardiff, and in 1892 Edinburgh will pro- 

 bably be the meeting-place. 



THE WORK OP THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN" 1889 IN 

 RELATION TO LOCAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



By Prof. J. W. H. TRAIL, A.M., M.D., F.L.S. 

 ~^HE Report of Mr. Brown, as Delegate from the East of 



A Scotland Union of Naturalists' Societies to the Meeting of 

 the British Association in Newcastle in 1889, gives full information 

 regarding the general aims and scope of the Association, and the 

 questions of special interest then discussed, in so far as these could 

 fall under the observation of a single member. Yet we venture to 

 call attention to certain aspects of the work of the meeting in so 

 far as that work is calculated to promote the attainment of a 

 higher standard by the various Local Scientific Societies, (whether 

 affiliated to the British Association or unconnected with it), or can 

 be assisted by hearty co-operation on the part of the members of 

 such societies. 



The Honorary Secretary of the Corresponding Societies' Com- 

 mittee of the B. A., Professor Meldola, has issued to the Secretaries 

 of Local Societies a circular, in which he requests that the Report 

 of the Conference of Delegates held at Newcastle, and the List of 

 Committees appointed by the B.A., be brought under the notice 



