Notes

Abstract

THE seventy-fourth annual meeting of the British Association will commence at Cambridge on Wednesday, August 17. The president elect is the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, and the presidents of the sections will be as follows:—A, mathematical and physical science, Prof. Horace Lamb, F.R.S.; B, chemistry, Prof. Sydney Young, F.R.S.; C, geology, Mr. Aubrey Strahan, F.R.S.; D, zoology, Mr. W. Bateson, F.R.S.; E, geography, Mr. Douglas W. Freshfield; F, economic science and statistics, Prof. W. Smart; G, engineering, Hon. C. A. Parsons, F.R.S.; H, anthropology, Mr. Henry Balfour; I, physiology, Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S.; K, botany, Mr. Francis Darwin, F.R.S.; L, educational science, the Lord Bishop of Hereford; conference of delegates of corresponding societies, chairman, Principal E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S. On Friday evening, August 19, a discourse on “Ripple Marks and Sand-dunes” will be given by Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S.; and on Monday, August 22, Prof. H. F. Osborn will deliver a lecture on “Recent Explorations and Researches on Extinct Mammalia.”