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FOR the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which is to be held this year at Portsmouth on August 30 and following days, under the presidency of Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., the following presidents have been appointed to the various sections:—Mathematical and Physical Science, Prof. H. H. Turner, F.R.S.; Chemistry, Prof. J. Walker, F.R.S.; Geology, A. Harker, F.R.S.; Zoology, Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson, C.B.; Geography, Colonel C. F. Close, R.E., C.M.G.; Economic Science and Statistics, Hon. W. Pember Reeves; Engineering, Prof. J. H. Biles; Anthropology, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S.; Physiology, Prof. J. S. Macdonald; Botany, Prof. F. E. Weiss, with W. Bateson, F.R.S., as chairman of the Sub-section of Agriculture; Educational Science, Rt. Rev. J. E. C. Welldon, formerly headmaster of Harrow School.
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Notes . Nature 85, 481–486 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085481a0
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