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THE following are the officers of the forty-fifth meeting of the British Association which will commence at Bristol on Wednesday, August 25, 1875:—President-elect—Sir John Hawkshaw, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents-elect—The Right Hon. the Earl of Ducie, F.R.S., the Right Hon. Sir Stafford H. North cote, Bart, F.R.S., the Mayor of Bristol, Major-General Sir Henry C. Rawlinson, F.R.S., Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., W. Sanders, F.R.S. General Secretaries—Capt. Douglas Galton, F.R.S., Dr. Michael Foster, F.R.S. Assistant General Secretary—George Griffith, F.C.S. General Treasurer—Prof. A. W. Williamson, F.R.S. Local Secretaries—W. Lant Carpenter, F.C.S., John H. Clarke. Local Treasurer—Proctor Baker. The sections are the following:-Section A: Mathematical and Physical Science. President—Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S. Section?: Chemical Science. President—A. G. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S. Section C: Geology. President—Dr. T. Wright, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. Section D: Biology. President—P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. Department of Zoology and Botany, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. (President), will preside. Department of Anatomy and Physiology. Prof. Cleland, F.R.S. (Vice-President), will preside. Department of Anthropology. Prof. Rolleston, F.R.S. (Vice-President), will preside. Section E: Geography. President—Major-General Strachey, F.R.S. Section F: Economic Science and Statistics. President—James Heywood, F.R.S., Pres. S. S. Section G: Mechanical Science. President—William Froude, F.R.S. The First General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 25, at 8 P.M. when Prof. Tyndall, F.R.S., will resign the chair, and Sir John Hawkshaw, C.E., F.R.S., President-elect, will assume the presidency, and deliver an address. On Thursday evening, August 26, at 8 P.M., a soirée; on Friday evening, August 27, at 8.30 P.M., a Discourse by W. Spottiswoode, LL.D., F.R.S., on “The Colours of Polarised Light;” on Monday evening, August 30, at 8.30 P.M., a Discourse by F. J. Bramwell, C.E., F.R.S., on “Railway Safety Appliances;” on Tuesday evening, August 31, at 8 P.M., 2, soirée on Wednesday, September I, the Concluding General Meeting will be held at 2.30 P.M. A special lecture to working-men will be given by Dr. Carpenter, F.R.S., on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 28; the subject will be “a piece of limestone.” The Local Committee have done everything in their power to make the Bristol meeting a success. All the nonlocal sectional secretaries will be lodged at the Queen's Hotel, close to the reception-room, at the Local Committee's expense; this will no doubt conduce much to the easy working of the meeting. The experiment of a room for the exhibition of specimens and apparatus, tried first last year at Belfast, will be repeated this year. The President will be the guest of the Mayor, who will occupy for the first time the new Mansion House just given to the city? by Thos. Proctor, Esq. Most of the other office-holders, as also all the foreign members, who have intimated their intention of being present, and several English members, have received private invitations from gentlemen resident in Bristol and neighbourhood. Many other hospitable arrangements have, we believe, been made, and altogether, so far as enjoyment and comfort are concerned, this promises to be one of the most satisfactory meetings of the Association. As we previously intimated, a specially prepared Guide, compiled by several gentlemen, will be published by Wright and Co., of Bristol; a lodging list with useful map will be issued this week. The whole of the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, will be used as a reception-room. All the evening meetings and soireés will take place at the Celston Hall, and satisfactory arrangements have been made for the meetings of sections. Several interesting excursions have been arranged for, including two to the Mendips, and handsome offers of entertainment have been made by those gentlemen to whose neighbourhood the excursions are to be made.