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A PRELIMINARY programme has been issued for this year's meeting of the British Association, which, as already announced, is to be held at Portsmouth on August 30 and following days. The opening meeting will be held in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening, August 30, when Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., will assume the presidency and deliver his inaugural address. In the same hall the first evening discourse will be delivered on Friday evening, September 1, by Mr. Leonard Hill, F.R.S., on “The Physiology of Submarine Work,” and the second on Monday evening, September 4, by Prof. A. C. Seward, F.R.S., on “Links with the Past in the Plant World.” The reception room and administrative offices during the meeting will be established in the Connaught Drill Hall, which is centrally situated close to the Town Hall, and within easy access of all the meeting rooms which will be occupied by the sections. The president will have the assistance of a strong body of representatives of the administrative, ecclesiastical, naval and military, interests of the town and neighbourhood, headed by H.R.H. Princess Henry of Battenberg and the Mayor, Alderman T. Scott Foster. An afternoon reception and an evening fête are announced to be given by the Mayor, and facilities will be arranged for members to visit sites and objects of scientific, historical, and national interest in Portsmouth and the neighbourhood.
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Notes . Nature 86, 249–254 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086249b0
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