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THE usual programme of the forthcoming (the 44th) meeting of the British Association at Belfast has been issued. The First General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 19, at 8 A.M. precisely, when Prof. Williamson, F.R.S., will resign the chair, and Prof. Tyndall, F.R.S., President-elect, will assume the presidency, and deliver an address. On Thursday evening, Aug. 20, at 8 P.M., there will be a Soirée; on Friday evening, Aug. 21, at 8 P.M., a Discourse by Prof. Huxley, F.R.S.; on Monday evening, Aug. 24, at 8.30 P.M., a Discourse by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S.; on Tuesday evening, Aug. 25, at 8 P.M., a Soirée; on Wednesday, Aug. 26, the concluding General Meeting will be held at 2.30 P.M. The following are the officials of the various sections:—A, Mathematical and Physical Science.—President: Rev. Prof. J. H. Jellett, M.R.I.A. Vice-Presidents: Prof. Everett, F.R.S.E.; Prof. Purser, M.R.I.A. Secretaries: Prof. W. K. Clifford, F.R.S.; J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.A.S.; Prof. Herschel, F.R.A.S.; Randal Nixon; G. F. Rodwell, F.R.A.S. B, Chemical Science.—President: Prof. A. Crum Brown, F.R.S.E. Vice-Presidents: Prof. Maxwell Simpson, F.R.S.; Dr. Debus, F.R.S. Secretaries: Dr. J. F. Hodges, F.C.S.; W. Chandler Roberts, F.C.S.; Prof. Thorpe, F.R.S.E. C, Geology.—President: Prof. Hull, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: Prof. Harkness, F.R.S.; Prof. Geikie, F.R.S. Secretaries: Louis C. Miall; R. G. Symes. D, Biology.—President: Prof. Redfern, M.D. Vice-Presidents: Dr. Hooker, C.B., Pres. R.S.; Sir W. R. Wilde; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S. Department of Anatomy and Physiology.—Prof. Redfern (president) will preside. Secretaries: Dr. J.J. Charles; Dr. P. H. Pye-Smith. Department of Zoology and Botany.—Dr. Hooker, C.B., Pres. R.S. (vice-president), will preside. Secretaries: Prof. W.T. Thiselton-Dyer, Prof. R. O. Cunningham, F.L.S. Department of Anthropology.—Sir W. R. Wilde (vice-president) will preside. Secretary: F. W. Rudler, F.G.S. E, Geography, —President: Major Wilson, F.R.S., Director of the Topographical Department of the Army. Vice-presidents: Sir BartleFrere,G.C.S.I., K.C.B., F.R.G.S.; Admiral Ommanney, C.B., F.R.S.; Major-General Strachey, F.R.S.; Secretaries: E. G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S.; E. C. Rye; J. H. Thomas, F.R.G.S. F, Economic Science and Statistics.—President:—. Vice-presidents: W. Donnelly, C.B.; Prof. T. E. Cliffe Leslie. Secretaries: F. P. Fellowes, F.S.A.; E. Macrory. G, Mechanical Science.—President: Prof. James Thomson, F.R.S.E. Vice-presidents: Sir John Hawkshaw, F.R.S.; Sir Charles Lanyon. Secretaries: James Barton; E. H. Carbutt; J. N. Shoolbred, F.G.S.