Abstract
Birmingham, Tuesday THE Birmingham meeting has been one of unusual excitement, mainly originating in the pre-arranged discussions which have taken place in several of the Sections. It is generally felt that this comparatively new feature has given new life to the Association, and ought to become general in all the Sections. At present the arrangements are somewhat crude, and the discussions are apt to become unmanageable. In some cases each of the speakers has all he means to say already written out, so that the discussion becomes merely the reading of a series of papers on a given subject. In other cases, however, at the present meeting, the discussions have been to a large extent extemporaneous. This was especially so with the joint meeting of Sections A and D to consider the subject of colour-vision, and with the discussion in Section E on Geographical Education. Probably the most lively and generally interesting discussion was that which followed Mr. Seebohm's paper on Dr. Romanes' theory of Physiological Selection. Among those who took part in this were Profs. M. Foster, Newton, and Francis Darwin. On Saturday there was a lively and instructive discussion in Section C on Pre-Glacial Man, in which Prof. McKenny Hughes, Mr. Pengelley, Prof. Boyd Dawkins, Mr. De Ranee, and others took part. The address of the President, Sir William Dawson, was a great popular success, so far as he could be heard. Prof. Rücker's lecture on soap-bubbles was universally admired, the experiments being unusually brilliant. Prof. Roberts-Austen's lecture to working men, on Saturday night, on the colour of metals, was greatly appreciated by a crowded audience.
Article PDF
References
In an excellent paper published in the Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society, vol. v. p. 52.
Prof. Rupert Jones has called attention to sand-worn pebbles in the Upper Tunbridge Wells sandstone of the Weald (Geol. Mag. Dec. 2, vol. v. p. 287).
See on the subject of this paragraph Daubrée, "Géol. Expériment.," vol. i. sec. 2, ch. i., and J. A. Phillips, Q. J. G. S., vol. xxxvii. p. 21, &c.
The analogy of the Indian conglomerates was suggested to me by Dr. Blanford . See Geol. Mag. Dec. 2, vol. x. p. 514.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
The British Association . Nature 34, 441–457 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034441a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/034441a0