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REPORT OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION MEETING. 
Section F. — Economic Science and Statistics. —Rev. H. W. 
Crosskey. 
Section G.— Mechanical Science. — W. P. Marshall, Vice- 
President of the section ; Aid. T. Avery. 
Section H.— Anthropology. —Lawson Tait. 
The following Papers were communicated by members of 
the society:— 
Section C.— Geology. —Prof. C. Lapworth : (1) Sketch of the 
Geology of the Birmingham district; (2) The Cam¬ 
brian Rocks of the Midlands ; (3) The Ordovician 
System in Shropshire. 
T. H. Waller, B.Sc. (President, 1883-4): On the Petro¬ 
graphy of the Volcanic and Associated Rocks of 
Nuneaton. 
W. Mathews : On the Halesowen Coal Boring. 
Rev. H. W. Crosskey: (1) Report on the Erratic Blocks 
of England and Wales; (2) On the Glacial Forma¬ 
tions of the Birmingham district. 
C. J. Woodward: On the Mineral District of Western 
Shropshire. 
Rev. P. B. Brodie : (1) On the Discovery of Fossil Fish 
in the New Red Sandstone (Upper Keuper) in War¬ 
wickshire ; (2) On the Range, Extent, and Fossils 
of the Rligetic Formation in Warwickshire. 
Section D.— Biology. —Prof. Haycraft: (1) On the Sense of 
Smell; (2) Some New Points in the Physiology of 
the Tortoise. 
W. B. Grove (Vice-President, 1886) : Two Fungus- 
Diseases of Plants. 
J. Morley (Vice-President, 1874-5): Note on the Cultiva¬ 
tion of Fern Prothallia for Laboratory purposes. 
Prof. Hillliouse: (1) Preliminary Note on the Fall of 
Leaves; (2) On an Apparatus for determining the 
rate of Transpiration in Plants ; (3) On Beggiatoa 
alba, a bacteriad of marshes. 
Section F.-— Economic Science and Statistics. —Rev. H. W. 
Crosskey: The Character and Organisation of the 
Institutions for Technical Education required in a 
large Manufacturing Town. 
Section G.— Mechanical Science. —W. P. Marshall: English 
and American Railways. 
As one would naturally expect, the members of the 
society have mainly worked in connection with the sections 
of Geology and Biology. The meeting of the Association 
this year was par excellence a geologists’ meeting. With this 
feature of the meeting the communications from members of 
this society sympathise. 
