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THE fifty-first Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science will commence at York on Wednesday, August 31, 1881. The President-Elect is Sir John Lubbock, Bart, M.P., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents Elect: His Grace the Archbishop of York, D.D., F.R.S.; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of York; the Right Hon. Lord Houghton, F.R.S.; the Yen. Archdeacon Creyke, M.A.; the Hon. Sir W. R. Grove, F.R.S.; Prof. G. G. Stokes, Sec. R.S.; Sir John Hawkshaw, C.E., F.R.S.; Allen Thomson, M.D., F.R.S. L. and E.; Prof. Allman, M.D., F.R.S. L. and E. General Secretaries: Capt-Douglas Gallon, C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S.; Philip Lutley Sclater' Ph.D., F.R.S. Acting Secretary: George Griffith, M.A., F.C.S., Harrow; General Treasurer: Prof. A. W. Williamson, F.R.S., University College, London, W.C. Local Secretaries: Rev. Thomas Adams, M.A.; Tempest Anderson, M.D., B.Sc., York. Local Treasurer: W. W. Wilberforce, York. The Sections are the following:—A.—Mathematical and Physical Science.—President: Prof. Sir William Thomson, F.R.S.L. and E. Vice-Presidents.—Prof. J. C. Adams, F.R.S.; T. Archer Hirst, Ph.D., V.P.R.S. Secretaries: Prof. W. E. Ayrton; Oliver J. Lodge, D.Sc.; Donald McAlister, B.A., B. Sc. (Recorder). B.—Chemical Science.—President: Prof. A. W. Williamson, For. Sec. R.S., V.P.C.S. Vice-Presidents: F. A. Abel, C.B., F.R.S.; Prof. Odling, F.R.S. Secretaries: Harold B. Dixon, M.A.; P. Phillips-Bedson, D.Sc. (Recorder). C—Geology.—President: 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. Vice-Presidents: Prof. Prestwich, F.R.S.; Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R. S.;. Secretaries: W. Topley, F.G.S. (Recorder); W. Whitaker, F.G.S. D.—Biology.—President: Richard Owen, C.B., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S.; Prof. J. S. Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S. Secretaries: G. W. Bloxam, M.A., F.L.S.; W. L. Distant; W. A. Forbes, F.Z.S.; Prof. M'Nab, M.D.; John Priestley; Howard Saunders, F.L.S., F.Z.S. Department of Zoology and Botany.—Richard Owen, C.B., F.R.S. (President), will preside. Secretaries: Prof. M'Nab, M.D. (Recorder); Howard Saunders, F.L.S., F.Z.S. Department of Anthropology.—Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S. (Vice-President), will preside. Secretaries: G. W. Bloxam, M.A., F.L.S. (Recorder); W. L. Distant. Department of Anatomy and Physiology.—Prof. J. S. Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S. (Vice-President), will preside. Secretaries: John Priestley (Recorder); W. A. Forbes, F.Z.S. E. Geography.—President: Sir J. D. Hooker, K C.S.I., C.B., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: Francis Gallon, F.R.S.; Prof. Sir C. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S. L. & E. Secretaries: H. W. Bates, Assist.—Sec.R.G.S., F.L.S.; E. C. Rye, Librarian R.G.S., F.Z.S. (Recorder). Economic Science and Statistics.—President: The Right Hon. M. E. Grant Duff, M.P., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: Sir George Campbell, K.C.S.I., M.P.; James Heywood, F.R.S. Secretaries: Constantine Molloy (Recorder); J. F. Moss. G. Mechanical Science.—President: Sir W. G. Armstrong, C.B., F.R.S. Vice Presidents: W. H. Barlow, F.R.S., Pres. Inst. C.E.; C. W. Siemens, D.C.L., F.R.S. Secretaries: A. T. Atchison, M.A. (Recorder); H. Trueman Wood, B.A. Tickets for the meeting may be obtained of the Local Secretaries at York, and at the Office of the Association, 22, Albemarle Street, London, W.; or on application by letter, from August 17 to August 24, to the General Treasurer, Prof. A. “W. Williamson, British Association, University College, London, W.C. The First General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 31, at 8 p.m. precisely, when A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S., V.P.G.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, and of the Museum of Practical Geology, will resign the chair, and Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., President-Elect, will assume the presidency, and deliver an address. On Thursday evening, September 1, at 8 p.m., a soirée; on Friday evening, September 2, at 8.30 p.m., a discourse by T. H. Huxley, LL.D., Sec.R.S., Professor of Natural History in the Royal School of Mines; on Monday evening, September 5, at 8.30 p.m. a discourse by W. Spottiswoode, D.C.L., LL.D., President of the Royal Society; on Tuesday evening, September 6, at 8 p.m., a svirée; on Wednesday, September 7, the concluding general meeting will be held at 2.30 p.m. No report, paper, or abstract, can be inserted in the Report of the Association tmless it is given in before the conclusion of the meeting. Excursions to places of interest in the neighbourhood of York will be made on the afternoon of Saturday, September 3, and on Thursday, September 8.