REPORT OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION MEETING. 
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of the part the Birmingham Natural History and Micro¬ 
scopical Society has, directly or by its members, taken in the 
work of the Meeting. 
As you will remember, the meeting commenced on Wed¬ 
nesday, September 1st, and closed on Wednesday, September 
8th. In the preparatory work the members of this society 
naturally took an active part. Out of the (approximately) 
seventy-five who constituted the Executive of the Reception 
Committee, this society provided twenty, including one of 
the local secretaries. These were apportioned as follows:— 
Local Hon. Secretary. —Rev. H. W. Crosskey, LL.D., 
F.G.S. (President, 1872). 
Finance Sub-Committee. —Aid. Avery, J.P., H. Heaton, 
J.P., J. H. Lloyd, M.A. 
Exhibition Sub - Committee. — R. W. Chase (President, 
1885-6), Chairman of the Natural History Sub-Committee; 
Aid. W. Cook, Prof. Hillhouse, M.A., F.L.S. (Vice-President, 
1885-6); Wilson Lloyd, M.P.; W. P. Marshall, M.I.C.E. 
(President, 1869); Edmund Tonks, B.C.L. (President, 1877); 
S. Walliker, A. W. Wills, J.P. (President, 1871). 
Booh Sub-Committee. —Prof. Lapwortli, LL.D., F.Gr.S.; 
W. Mathews, M.A., F.G.S. (Vice-President, 1868); C. J. 
Woodward, B.Sc. 
Excursions Sub-Committee. —G. H. Kenrick. 
Hospitality and Lodgings Sub-Committee. —G. S. Albright, 
M.A. 
Conversazione Sub-Committee. —Prof. Haycraft, M.B., B.Sc., 
F.R.S.E.; Lawson Tait, LL.D., F.R.C.S. (President, 1876). 
Of the various sections into which the association is 
divided, the following members of the society found places 
on the sectional committees :— 
Section A.— Mathematical and Physical Science. —C. J. 
Woodward. 
Section B. — Chemical Science. —C. J. Woodward, Sectional 
Secretary. 
Section C.— Geology. —Rev. H. W. Crosskey, Prof. C. 
Lapwortli, and W. Mathews, all Vice-Presidents of the 
section; Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A.; Alfred Browett, Rev. G. 
Deane, D.Sc.; G. A. Panton, F.R.S.E.; Horace Pearce, C. 
J. Watson, C. J. Woodward. 
Section D.— Biology. —Prof. T. W. Bridge, M.A., and 
Prof. Hillhouse, sectional secretaries; R. W. Chase, M. C. 
Cooke, M.A., LL.D.; W. B. Grove, B.A.; Prof. J. B. Hay- 
craft, W. R. Hughes, F.L.S. (President, 1864-6, 1878); 
Prof. A. Milnes Marshall, M.A., F.R.S.; W. Mathews, 
Lawson Tait, A. W. Wills. 
