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THE presidents of the sections of the British Association, for the meeting to be opened at Southport on September 9, are as follows:—Mathematical and Physical Science, Mr. C. V. Boys, F.R.S. (Chairman of Department for Astronomy and Meteorology, Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S.); Chemistry, Prof. W. N. Hartley, F.R.S.; Geology, Prof. W. W. Watts; Zoology, Prof. S. J. Hickson, F.R.S.; Geography, Captain Ettrick W. Creak, C.B., F.R.S.; Economic Science and Statistics, Mr. E. W. Brabrook, C.B.; Engineering, Mr. C. Hawksley; Anthropology, Prof. J. Symington; Botany, Mr. A. G. Seward, F.R.S.; Educational Science, Sir William de W. Abney, K.C.B., F.R.S. On Friday, September 11, a discpurse on “Man as Artist and Sportsman in the Palæolithic Period” will be delivered by Dr. Robert Munro, and on Monday, September 14, Dr. Arthur Rowe will lecture on “The Old Chalk Sea, and some of its Teachings.”