xxxiv Date and Place. President. 1843. Cork 1844. York Prof. J. Macneill, M.R.I.A.. 1845. Cambridge .. George Rennie, F.R.S. 1847. Oxford 1848. Swansea... 1849. Birmingham Robert Stephenson, M.P., 1850. Edinburgh.. Rev. Dr. Robinson. Secretaries. James Thomson, Robert Mallet. 1846. Southampton Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S. . William Betts, Jun., Charles Manby. 1851. Ipswich.. 1852. Belfast 1853. Hull 1854. Liverpool William Cubitt, F.R.S. William Fairbairn, C.E., F.R.S. John Scott Russell, F.R.S.. W. J. Macquorn Rankine, C.E., F.R.S. 1855. Glasgow C. Atherton, B. Jones, Jun., H. M. The Right Hon. The Earl of Prof. Downing, W. T. Doyne, A. Tate, William Fairbairn, F.R.S.... Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S.. R. Abernethy, P. Le Neve Foster, H. Wright. 1860. Oxford Prof. W. J. Macquorn Rankine, P. Le Neve Foster, Rev. F. Harrison, 1861. Manchester .J. F. Bateman, C.E., F.R.S....... P. Le Neve Foster, John Robinson, H. Wright. 1862. Cambridge.. William Fairbairn, LL.D., F.R.S. W. M. Fawcett, P. Le Neve Foster. 1863. Newcastle. Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S. P. Le Neve Foster, P. Westmacott, J. ...... J. Hawkshaw, F.R.S.. F. Spencer. 1864. Bath 1865. Birmingham Sir W. G. Armstrong, LL.D., P. Le Neve Foster, Henry Lea, W. P. Marshall, Walter May. RECEIPTS. £ 8. d. 314 10 5 Received for Life Compositions at Dundee Meeting and since 279 0 0 THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. THE GENERAL TREASURER'S ACCOUNT from 4th September 1867 (DUNDEE) to 19th August 1868 (NORWICH). To Balance brought from last Account PAYMENTS. By paid Expenses of Dundee Meeting, also Sundry Printing, ,, Printing, Engraving, and Binding Report of 36th Meeting (Nottingham) " Salaries (1 year) 350 0 0 Grants made at Dundee Meeting, viz. Aug. 19. Balance at London and Westminster Bank £173 19 10 mal Substances 5 0 0 0 0 British Marine Invertebrate Fauna 100 0 0 1940 0 0 GEORGE G. STOKES, M.A., D.C.L., Sec. R.S., Lucasian-Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge. VICE-PRESIDENTS ELECT. The Right Hon. The EARL OF DEVON. WILLIAM B. CARPENTER, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. The Right Hon. Sir STAFFORD H. NORTHCOTE, ROBERT WERE FOX, Esq., F.R.S. C.B., Bart., M.P., &c. Sir JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., F.R.S. W. H. FOX TALBOT, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. The President and President Elect, the Vice-Presidents and Vice-Presidents Elect, the General and Assistant General Secretaries, the General Treasurer, the Trustees, and the Presidents of former years, viz.: T. ARCHER HIRST, Esq., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., Professor of Mathematics in University College, London. ASSISTANT CENERAL SECRETARY. GEORGE GRIFFITH, Esq., M.A., 1 Woodside, Harrow. GENERAL TREASURER. WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., 50 Grosvenor Place, London, S.W. AUDITORS. Dr. Odling, F.R.S. W. H. Flower, Esq., F.R.S. Professor G. C. Foster, F.C.S. OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES PRESENT AT THE NORWICH MEETING. SECTION A.-MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. President.-Professor Tyndall, LL.D, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents.-J. P. Gassiot, F.R.S.; Rev. Canon Heaviside; Rev. Professor M.A. SECTION B.-CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY, INCLUDING THEIR APPLICATIONS TO AGRICULTURE AND THE ARTS. President.-Professor Edward Frankland, F.R.S., F.C.S. Vice-Presidents.-Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S.; Professor Liveing, F.C.S.; Professor Odling, F.R.S.; Dr. Stenhouse, F.R.S.; Professor Williamson, F.R.S. Secretaries. Dr. A. Crum Brown, F.R.S.E., F.C.S.; Dr. W. J. Russell, F.C.S.; F. Sutton, F.C.S. SECTION C.-GEOLOGY. President.-R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., F.G.S. Vice-Presidents.-Sir Chas. J. F. Bunbury, Bart., F.R.S., F.G.S.; John Evans, F.R.S., F.G.S.; R. Fitch, F.G.S.; Professor Harkness, F.R.S.; Professor Huxley, F.R.S.; Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S.; Professor Phillips, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S.; Warington W. Smyth, F.R.S., F.G.S. Secretaries.-W. Pengelly, F.R.S.; Rev. H. H. Winwood, M.A., F.G.S.; Rev. J. Gunn, F.G.S.; Rev. Osmund Fisher, M.A., F.G.S. SECTION D.-BIOLOGY. President.-Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. Vice-Presidents.-Professor Balfour, M.D., F.R.S.; George Bentham, F.R.S.; George Busk, F.R.S.; W. H. Flower, F.R.S.; Professor Humphry, F.R.S.; Professor Newton, M.A., F.L.S.; Professor Rolleston, F.R.S.; E. B. Tylor, F.L.S. Secretaries.-G. W. Firth; M. Foster, M.D., F.L.S.; Professor Lawson, M.A.; H. T. Stainton, F.R.S.; Rev. H. B. Tristram, LL.D., F.R.S.; Professor E. Perceval Wright, M.D., F.L.S.; T. S. Cobbold, M.D., F.R.S. SECTION E.-GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. President.-Capt. G. II. Richards, R.N., F.R.S., Hydrographer to the Admiralty. Vice-Presidents.-Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Belcher; Sir Walter Elliot; Sir F. Leopold McClintock, F.R.S.; Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart.; Admiral Erasmus Ommanney, F.R.S.; Sir Arthur Phayre; General Sir A. Scott Waugh, F.R.S. Secretaries.-H. W. Bates, Assist. Sec. R.G.S.; Thomas Baines, F.R.G.S.; Clements R. Markham, Sec. R.G.S.; T. Wright, Sec. Ethnological Society. SECTION F.-ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. President. Samuel Brown, President of the Institute of Actuaries. Vice-Presidents.-Sir Willoughby Jones, Bart.; Sir Samuel Bignold, Knt.; Sir John Bowring, F.R.S.; Dr. Farr, F.R.S.; W. Newmarch, F.R.S.; R. J. H. Harvey, M.P.; James Heywood, M.A., F.R.S. Secretaries.-Professor Leone Levi, F.S.A.; Rev. W. Cufaude Davie, M.A. xxxviii SECTION G.-MECHANICAL SCIENCE. President.-G. P. Bidder, F.R.G.S. Secretaries.-P. Le Neve Foster, M.A.; Charles Manby, F.R.S.; J. F. Iselin, Report of the Council of the British Association, presented to the The Council have received Reports from the General Treasurer, and from the Kew Committee at each of their Meetings, and their Reports for the past year will be laid before the General Committee. Owing to the death of Lord Wrottesley, the Chairman and most active member of the Parliamentary Committee, no Report of this Committee is presented this year. At their Meeting on March 14th, Mr. F. Galton, General Secretary, informed the Council that considerations of health precluded him, to his sincere The Council, in accordance with their regret, from continuing to hold office. previous practice, appointed a Committee, consisting of the General Secretaries and the gentlemen who had formerly filled that office, for the purpose of reporting a recommendation to the Council of a successor to Mr. Galton. From this Committee the Council have received the following Report:"Resolved that Dr. T. Thomson, F.R.S., &c., be recommended as highly qualified for election as Joint-General Secretary of the Association." The Council recommend that Dr. T. Thomson be now elected Joint-General Secretary. At the last Mecting of the Association the General Committee referred to the Council a Resolution relating to the administration of the Natural-History Collections of the British Museum, in which it was recommended to press on the Government the importance of transferring the control of these Collections from the Board of Trustees to a single officer of Government responsible to Parliament. After deliberating on the Report of a Committee specially appointed to consider the question, the Council sent a deputation to urge on the Government the desirability of making the proposed changes. Professor Martins, of Montpellier, and Professor Mannheim, of Paris, who attended the Meeting of the Association at Dundee, have been elected Corresponding Members by the Council. The Annual Report of the Association for last year has been issued in an It is hoped that with the improved form and at an earlier date than usual. cooperation of the Authors of Reports it may in future be published at a still earlier period, and thereby its utility much increased. Owing to the modifications made at the Birmingham Meeting, in the arrangements of Section D, the Council have had under consideration the advisability of omitting the word "Ethnology" in the designation of Section E. They recommend that a Resolution to this effect be passed by the General Committee. The Council have been informed that invitations for 1869 will be presented by Deputations from Exeter, Liverpool, Edinburgh, and Brighton;-and an invitation for the following year, by a Deputation from Bradford. |