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THE following officers have been elected for the Brighton Meeting of the British Association:—President-elect—Dr. William B. Carpenter, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents-elect—The Earl of Chichester, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Devonshire, F.R.S., Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., Dr. Sharpey, Sec. R.S., Mr. Joseph Prestwich, F.R.S., Pres. G.S. Section A: Mathematical and Physical Science. President—Warren De La Rue, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents—J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S.; Lord Rosse, F.R.S; Prof. H. J. Stephen Smith, F.R;S. Secretaries—Prof. W. K. Clifford, R. A. Proctor, A. C. Ranyard. Section B: Chemical Science. President—Dr. J. Hall Gladstone, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents—F. A. Abel, F.R.S.; Prof. Williamson, F.R.S. Secretaries—Dr. Mills; W. Chandler Roberts; Dr. W. J. Russell, F.R.S.; T. Wood. Section C: Geology. President—R. A. C. God win-Austen, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents—Thomas Davidson, F.R.S.; Prof. P.M. Duncan, F.R.S.; Rev. T. Wiltshire. Secretaries—Henry Woodward, Louis C. Miall, G. Scott, William Topley. Section D: Biology. President—Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents—John Ball, F.R.S.; Dr. Be ddoe; Prof. Flower, F.R.S.; Colonel A. Lane Fox; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S.; Dr. Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S. Department of Zoology and Botany. Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., will preside. Secretaries—Prof. Thiselton Dyer; H. T. Stainton, F.R.S. Department of Anatomy and Physiology. Dr. Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S., will preside. Secretaries—Dr. Gamgee, F.R.S.; E. Ray Lankester; Dr. Rutherford; Dr. Pye-Smith. Department of Anthropology. Colonel A. Lane Fox will preside. Secretaries—Dr. Charnock, F. W. Rudler, J. H. Lamprey. Section E: Geography. President—Francis Galton, F. R. S. Vice-Presidents—Clements R. Markham; Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Bart., F.R.S., Pres. R.G.S.; Major-General Strachey, F.R.S. Secretaries—H. W. Bates, A. Keith Johnston, Rev. J. Newton, J. H. Thomas. Section F: Economic Science and Statistics. President—Prof. Henry Fawcett, M.P. Vice-Presidents—R. Dudley Baxter, William Newmarch, F. R. S. Secretaries—J. G. Fitch, Edmund Macrory, Barclay Phillips. Section G: Mechanical Science. President—Frederick J. Bramwell, C.E. Vice-Presidents—John Hawkshaw, F.R.S.; C. W. Merrifield, F.R.S.; Charles B. Vignoles, F.R.S. Secretaries—H. Bauerman, J. Gamble. The First General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 14, at 8 P.M. precisely, when Prof. Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., will resign the Chair, and Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., will assume the Presidency, and deliver an Address. On Thursday Evening, August 15, at 8 P.M., a Soirée; on Friday Evening, August 16, at 8.30 P.M., a Discourse on Insect Metamorphosis, by Dr. P.M. Duncan, F.R.S; on Monday Evening, August 19, at 8.30 P.M., a Discourse by Prof. Clifford; on Tuesday Evening, August 20, at 8 P.M., a Soirée; on Wednesday, August 21, the Concluding General Meeting will be held at 2.30 P.M.