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THE number of papers in the two leading departments of the Biological Section were very few this year, as indeed they have been for some years, and therefore it was decided by the General Committee that the number of departments of that section be reduced from three to two. Next year's meeting was fixed for September 19, with the view of bringing it towards the close of the holidays rather than in the middle of them. A formal resolution was also passed authorising the Council to make the best arrangements they can for securing an equal representation of all the sections at the meeting proposed to be held at Montreal in the succeeding year. One or two speakers seemed to doubt whether the matter could be regarded as finally settled. A suggestion was made that a meeting should be held in this country as usual, and that the vice-presidents should go to Canada as delegates. It was stated on both sides that members were absent at Monday's meeting whose votes would have materially affected the decision arrived at. It is matter of satisfaction that Southport contains numerous public meeting-places close to each other. The scattered position of the Sections at the present meeting has been a very serious obstacle to members wishing to hear pipers in different Sections on the same day. This has been especially the case in Section C, which, being half a mile from most of the other Sections, seldom obtained a good audience, and indeed was only filled when the popular subject of the Channel Tunnel was brought before the Section by Messrs. Boyd Dawkins and De Ranee.
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The British Association . Nature 26, 457–458 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026457a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/026457a0