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THE Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the British Association will commence on Wednesday, August 25, 1880, at Swansea. The President Elect is Andrew Crombie Ramsay, LL.D., F.R.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom and of the Museum of Practical Geology. The Vice-presidents Elect are: The Right Hon. the Earl of Jersey, the Mayor of Swansea, the Hon. Sir W. R. Grove, D.C.L., F.R.S., H. Hussey Vivian, M.P., F.G.S., L. LI. Dillwyn, M.P., F.L.S., J. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., F.R.S.; and the General Secretaries: Capt. Douglas Galton, C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., 12, Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, S.W., Philip Lutley Sclater, Ph.D., F.R.S., 11, Hanover Square, London, W.; Assistant-Secretary: J. E. H. Gordon, 22, Albemarle Street, London, W.; General Treasurer: Prof. A. W. Williamson, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., University College, London, W.C.; Local Secretaries: W. Morgan, Ph.D., F.C.S., and James Strick, Swansea; and Local Treasurer: R. J. Letcher, Swansea. The Sections are the following:—A.—Mathematical and Physical Science.—President: Prof. W. Grylls Adams, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: C, W. Merri field, F.R.S.; C. W. Siemens, D.C.L., F.R.S. Secretaries: W. E. Ayrton; J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S.; Oliver J. Lodge, D.Sc.; Donald McAlister, B.Sc (Recorder). B.—Chemical Science.—President: John Henry Gilbert, Ph.D., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: I. Lowthian Bell, F.R.S.; William Crookes, F.R.S.; W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S. Secretaries: Harold B. Dixon, F.C.S.: Dr. W. R. Eaton-Hodgkinson; P. Phillips-Bedson, D.Sc, F.C.S.; J, M. Thomson, F.C.S. (Recorder). C.—Geology.—President H. Clifton Sorby, LL.D., F.R.S. Vice-President: Prof. Archibald Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., L. and E., Warington W. Smyth, F.R.S. Secretaries: W. Topley, F.G.S. (Recorder); W. Whitaker, F.G.S. D.—Biology.—President: A. C. L, G. Giinther, M.D., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: F. M. Balfour, F.R.S.; Prof. Newton, F.R.S.; F. W. Rudler, F.G.S. Secretaries: G. W. Bloxam, F.L.S. (Recorder); Prof. M'Nab, M.D. (Recorder); John Priestley; Howard Saunders, F.Z.S. E.—Geography.—President: Lieut.—General Sir John Henry Lefroy, C.B., K.G.M.G., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents:—Sir Henry Barkly, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S.; Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney, C.B., F.R.S.; Lieut-General Sir H. E. L. Thuillier, C.S.I., R.A., F.R.S. Secretaries: H. W. Bates, Assist.—Sec. R.G.S., F.L.S.; C. E. D. Black; E. C. Rye, Librarian R.G.S., F.Z.S. (Recorder). F.—Economic Science and Statistics.—President: George Woodyatt Hastings, M.P. Vice-Presidents: James Heywood, F.R.S.; William New-march, F.R.S.; Henry Richard, M.P. Secretaries: Noel A. Humphreys, F.S.S.; Constantine Molloy (Recorder). G.— Mechanical Science.—President: James Abernethy, C.E. Vice-Presidents: Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S.; Prof. James Stuart. Secretaries: A. T. Atchison (Recorder); H. Trueman Wood. The first general meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 25, at 8 p.m., precisely, when Prof. G. J. Allman, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., L. & E., Pres. L.S., will resign the chair, and A. C. Ramsay, LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.G.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United kingdom, and of the Museum of Practical Geology, 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 Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., on “Primæval Man”; on Monday evening, August 30, at 8.30 p.m., a discourse by Francis Galton, M.A., F.R.S., on “Mental Imagery”; on Tuesday evening, August 31, at 8 p.m., a. soiree; on Wednesday, September 1, the concluding general meeting will be held at 2.30 p.m. On Saturday evening, August 28, Henry Seebohm, F.Z.S., will deliver a lecture to the operative classes on “The North-East Passage”; tickets can be purchased of the local secretaries. A room will be provided for the reception of apparatus and specimens illustrative of papers communicated to the sections. Excursions to places of interest in the neighbourhood of Swansea will be made on Thursday, September 2, and short excursions on the afternoon of Saturday, August 28.