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AS we go to press the great annual scientific meeting has already commenced; and although the President is at the present moment actually delivering his opening address, we are able, through Prof. Huxley's kindness, to give our readers a verbatim report. We believe it will be found to rank in interest and importance along with any of its predecessors. We are also able to give Prof. Roscoe's Address to Section B; the Kew Report lack of space compels us to defer till next week. We have already given the particulars of the places of meeting and officers of the various sections. Not much remains to be added: by the time this is in the hands of our readers the meeting will be in full swing, and those who are attending it will already be at home in all the various arrangements. Among the most interesting occasions will doubtless be Sir John Lubbock's lecture to working men. The Mayor's reception at the Town Hall, continued for two successive evenings, though not open to all who show the ticket of the Association, is virtually so. All who have arrived in time will receive a formal invitation; and any omission, if such occur, will rest with those who should promptly send forward the names. Another entertainment is that to be given in the Philharmonic Hall on Saturday evening, the 17th, by Dr. E. R. Bickersteth. Besides giving a subscription on the largest scale to the local fund, he will entertain about 700 strangers and 300 of our own townspeople. Eight excursions have been arranged for Thursday, September 22nd, in connection with the Association. The first of these is to Cefn Hall, near St. Asaph, where the party will be received at a luncheon by Mrs. Williams Wynne; the excursionists will start from the George's Landing Stage by the railway boat. An excursion party will also leave for Chester by the same boat. An excursion party to Crewe Works will leave the Lime Street Station by an early train. The guests, whose number is limited to one hundred, are invited to a luncheon at Crewe, provided by the London and North Western Railway Company. A fourth excursion will be to Llandudno, and will start from the Prince's Landing Stage in the Eblana, kindly lent for the occasion by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. Dinner and tea will be provided on board the vessel at hours most convenient to the excursionists. Another party will leave the George's Landing Stage for Llangollen, and have luncheon at the Hand Hotel, Llangollen. A sixth excursion will visit Widnes, where there will be a dinner in the public hall, by invitation of the Widnes committee of reception. There will likewise be an excursion to Wigan, and an excursion up and down the River Mersey. In Liverpool many of the chief works, manufactories, and public institutions will be open to the inspection of the members of the Association all through the week. Among the papers intended to be read, the titles of which have already reached us, the following are among the most interesting:— In Section A, Francis Galton, F.R.S., “Barometric Predictions of Coming Weather.”—John J. Hall, “A new Electro-magnetic Electrometer.”—A. W. Bickerton, “A new Heat Engine.”—W. Rowett, “Ocean Telegraphy.”—Henry Hudson, Glenville, Fermoy, Ireland, “On the Wave Theories of Light.”—Dr. Joseph Henry, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U.S.A., who will be present at the meeting, “On the Rainfall of the United States.”—R. S. Ball, Royal College of Science, Dublin, “The small Oscillations of a Rigid Body.”—S. Hewett, Marlborough, Wilts, “The Earth's Centre of Gravity, Axis of Revolution, and Magnetic Axis or Centre.”—W. M. Watts, “The Existence of two Spectra produced by Carbon incandescent at the same Temperature.”—In Section B, C. R. Tichborne, F.C.S., “On the Action of Street Dust as a Ferment.”—W. H. Perkin, “On Artificial Alizarine.”—A. H. Church, “Experiments on the Preservation of Stone,” “Contributions to Mineralogical Chemistry.”—John G. Macvicar, “On the Structure and Form of an Atom of Moisture” (illustrated by models).—J. H. Lloyd, M.D., Anglesea, “On the Dry System of Sewage.”—In Section C, J. Logan Lobley, “On the Stratigraphical Distribution of the British Fossil Gasteropoda.”—W. C. Williamson, “On the Organisation and Affinities of the Calamities of the Coal Measures.”—G. A. Laborn, “On the Tertiary Coal-field of Southern Chili.”—Charles Ricketts, “On a Railway Section across the Prescot Coal-field.”—John W. Judd, “On the Age of the Wealden.”—Geo. Busk, a paper by Dr. Leith Adams, “On a New Species of Fossil Elephants from Malta.”—Charles jeaks, “On the Norwich Crag.”
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The British Association.—Liverpool Meeting, 1870. Nature 2, 399–406 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002399a0
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