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Abstract

ALL the most essential arrangements have now been made br the Nottingham meeting of the British Association. The first general meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 13, at 8 p.m., when Sir Archibald Geikie will resign the chair, and Dr. J. S. Burdon Sanderson will assume the presidency and deliver an address. On Thursday evening, September 14, there will be a soirée; on Friday evening a discourse will be delivered by Prof. Arthur Smithells on “flame”; on Monday evening Prof. Victor Horsley will deliver a discourse “on the discovery of the physiology of the nervous system”; on Tuesday evening there will be another soirée; and on Wednesday afternoon, September 20, the concluding general meeting will be held-Excursions to places of interest in the neighbourhood of Nottingham will be made on the afternoon of Saturday, September 16, and on Thursday, September 21. The following will be the presidents of sections:—A (Mathematical and Physical Science), Prof. R. B, Clifton, F.R.S.; B (Chemistry and Mineralogy), Prof. J. E. Reynolds, F. R. S.; C (Geology), Mr. J. J. H. Teall, F. R. S.; D (Biology), Rev. H. B. Tristram, F.R.S.; E (Geography), Mr. H. Seebohm; F (Economic Science and Statistics), Prof. J. S. Nicholson; G (Mechanical Science), Mr. Jeremiah Head; H (Anthropology), Dr. Robert Munro.