REPORT-1868. 1865. Maintaining the Establishment of Kew Observatory. 600 0 0 Balloon Committee Tidal Observations in the Humber Hexylic Compounds...... Amyl Compounds.. Irish Flora 25 0 0 390 20 0 0 Maintaining the Establishment of Kew Observatory.. Meteorological Instruments, Pa lestine Lunar Committee... Metrical Committee.. Palestine Explorations.. ...... 600 0 0 50 0 0 120 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 Insect Fauna, Palestine British Rainfall... 30 0 0 50 00 Lingula Flags Excavation 10 0 0 Eurypterus 50 0 Electrical Standards..... 100 0 Oyster Breeding Dredging Aberdeenshire Water Malta Caves Researches Gibraltar Caves Researches Kent's Hole Excavations... Moon's Surface Observations Marine Fauna Dredging Channel Islands Zoological Nomenclature..... Resistance of Floating Bodies in Bath Waters Analysis Luminous Meteors Kilkenny Coal Fields Alum Bay Fossil Leaf-Bed Bournemouth, &c. Leaf-Beds ... 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Members and Committees who are entrusted with sums of money for collecting specimens of Natural History are requested to reserve the specimens so obtained for distribution by authority of the Association. In each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitled to call on the Treasurer, William Spottiswoode, Esq., 50 Grosvenor Place, London, S. W., for such portion of the sum granted as may from time to time be required. In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate the payment of personal expenses to the members. In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continuation of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be deemed to include, as a part of the amount, the specified balance which may remain unpaid on the former grant for the same object. General Meetings. On Wednesday Evening, August 19, at 8 P.M., in the Drill Hall, His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., F.R.S., President, resigned the office of President to Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, F.R.S., F.L.S., who took the Chair, and delivered an Address, for which see page lviii. On Thursday Evening, August 20, at 8 P.M., a Soirée took place in St. Andrew's Hall. On Wednesday Evening, August 26, in the Drill Hall, Prof. Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on "Chalk," to the Operative Classes of Norwich. On Friday Evening, August 21, at 8.30 P.M., in the Drill Hall, J. Fergusson, Esq., F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on the "Archæology of the Early Buddish Monuments." On Tuesday Evening, August 25, at 8 P.M., in the Drill Hall, Dr. W. Odling, F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on "Reverse Chemical Actions;" after which, at 9 P.M., a Soirée took place in St. Andrew's Hall. On Wednesday, August 26, at 3 P.M., the concluding General Meeting took place, when the Proceedings of the General Committee, and the Grants of Money for Scientific purposes, were explained to the Members. The Meeting was then adjourned to Exeter. * The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, August 18, 1869. ADDRESS OF JOSEPH D. HOOKER, F.R.S., PRESIDENT. MY LORDS, LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN, THIRTY years will to-morrow have elapsed since I first attended a Meeting of the British Association; it was the one which opened at Newcastle on the 20th of August, 1838. On that occasion, the Council of the Association resolved to recommend to Her Majesty's Government the despatch of an expedition to the Antarctic regions, under the command of Captain James Ross; and it was from Newcastle that I wrote to my friends announcing my resolve to accompany it, in whatever capacity I could obtain a situation amongst its officers. It was thus that my scientific career was first shaped; and it is to this expedition, which was one of the very earliest results of the labours of the British Association, that I am indebted for the honour you have conferred upon me, in placing me in your President's chair. If I now look back with pride to those immediately following years, when I had a share, however small, in the discovery of the Antarctic Continent, the Southern Magnetic Pole, the Polar Barrier, and the Ice-clad Volcanos of Victoria Land, I do so also with other and far different feelings. Thirty years, as statisticians tell us, represent the average duration of human life; I need not say, that, as measured by the records of the British Association, a human lifetime is far shorter than this; for of the fourteen officers who presided over us in 1838, but two remain, your former President and devoted adherent for thirty-five years, Sir Roderick Murchison, who delivered the opening address on that occasion, and whose health, I regret to add, prevents his attendance at this Meeting; and your faithful and evergreen Secretary, Professor Phillips, upon whose presence here I congratulate both you and him. Again, looking back beyond thirty years ago in the pages of your Records, I find those to have been haleyon years for Presidents, when the preparation and delivery of the Addresses devolved upon the Treasurer, Secretary, or other officer than the President; and that in fact Presidential Addresses date from the first Meeting after that at Newcastle. Of late years these Addresses have been regarded, if not as the whole duty of the President, certainly as his highest; for your sakes, as well as for my own, I wish this were not so; both because there are amongst your officers so many men far more competent than I am, and because I believe that the responsibility which the preparation of these Addresses entails, disadvantageously limits your choice of Presidents. The impression is very prevalent that the Address should either be a scientific tour de force, philosophical and popular, or a résumé of the progress of one or more important branches of science; and this view of the duty has greatly embarrassed me, inasmuch as I am unable |