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THE eighty-seventh annual meeting of the British Association will be held in Bournemouth from Tuesday, September 9, to Saturday, September 13, under the presidency of the Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, who will deliver an address to the association (dealing with engineering and the war) at the inaugural general meeting in the Winter Gardens on September 9 at 8.30 p.m. The sectional work will begin on Tuesday morning, and the days available for sectional meetings will therefore be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, September 9, 10, n, and 12, and, if required, Saturday morning, September 13. The following presidents of sections have been appointed by the council:—A, Mathematical and Physical Science, Prof. Andrew Gray; B, Chemistry, Prof. P. Phillips Bedson; C, Geology, Dr. J. W. Evans; D, Zoology, Dr. F. A. Dixey; E, Geography, Prof. L. W. Lyde; F, Economic Science and Statistics, Sir Hugh Bell, Bart.; G, Engineering, Prof. J. E. Petavel; H, Anthropology, Prof. Arthur Keith; I, Physiology, Prof. D. Noel Paton; K, Botany, Sir Daniel Morris; L, Educational Science, Sir Napier Shaw; and M, Agriculture, Prof. W. Somerville. Evening discourses will be delivered on Thursday, September 11, by Sir Arthur Evans on “The Palaee of Minos and the Prehistoric Civilisation of Cirete”; and on Friday, September 12, by Mr. Sidney G. Brown oh “The Gyroscopic Compass.”