36 MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN YORK. 
was offered to the excursionists by the Marquis of Ripon, A. S. 
Lawson, Esq., and Mrs. Lawson, Sir Hugh Bell, Colonel 
Challoner, the Mayor and Mayoress of Scarborough, and the 
Mayor of Ripon. The Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society threw open the Museum and Gardens to Members of 
the Association. The Commitee of St. Leonard's Club offered 
them hospitality, of which they availed themselves largely; 
and the Committee of the Subscription Library gave them free 
entry to their premises. 
The meeting began on August istwith a Meeting of Council 
at noon. The Sectional Committees met at 2 p.m., the 
General Committee at 4 p.m. The Lady Mayoress held her 
“At Home” from 3 to 6 p.m., and at 8-30 the President 
(Professor E. Ray Lankester) delivered his address. During 
the rest of the period, the mornings were devoted to Sectional 
Meetings and the afternoons to Garden Parties. On the 
evening of August 2nd, the Executive Committee gave a Con¬ 
versazione in the Exhibition Buildings : the Museum Gardens 
were thrown open to the visitors, and were illuminated. This 
was repeated on August 7th. Dr. Tempest Anderson gave a 
discourse on “ Volcanoes ” on August 3rd. Dr. Sylvanus 
Thompson gave a lecture on Aug. qth to the Operative Classes 
on “ The Manufacture of Light,” and Dr. A. D. Waller lectured 
on “ The Electrical Signs of Life and their Abolition by 
Chloroform ” on August 6th. On August 8th, the General 
Committee met to receive Reports, and the concluding General 
Meeting was held at 2-30 p.m. in the Guildhall. A lighter, 
but distinctly interesting, event that deserves passing notice, 
was the revival of the “ Red Lion Club ” Dinner after a lapse 
of several years. The “ Lions ” had a very pleasant feast on 
August 7th. 
The meeting was in every way a conspicuous success, and a 
week of perfect weather greatly heightened the enjoyment of 
the members. No hitch or drawback was experienced in the 
carrying out of the schemes laid down beforehand by the 
Executive Committee and its various Sub-Committees, a result 
due largely to the untiring and devoted energy of the Acting 
Secretary, Mr. Fred Arey. There was a general opinion among 
the visitors that the meeting would long be remembered as one 
