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General Meetings.

On Wednesday, September 6, at 8 P.M., in the Garden Palace, Botanic Gardens, Sir John Hawkshaw, C.E., F.R.S., F.G.S., President, resigned the office of President to Professor Thomas Andrews, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., who took the Chair, and delivered an Address, for which see page lxviii.

On Thursday, September 7, at 8 P.M., two Soirées took place, one in the Royal Exchange, the other in the Corporation Galleries.

On Friday, September 8, at 8.30 P.M., in the Garden Palace, Botanic Gardens, Professor Tait, F.R.S.E., delivered a Discourse on "Force."

On Saturday, September 9, at 6 P.M., in the City Hall, Commander Cameron, R.N., C.B., delivered a Lecture, on "A Journey through Africa," to the Working Classes of Glasgow.

On Monday, September 11, at 8.30 P.M., in the Garden Palace, Botanic Gardens, Professor Wyville Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on "The Challenger' Expedition."

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On Tuesday, September 12, at 8 P.M., a Soirée took place in the Garden Palace, Botanic Gardens.

On Wednesday, September 13, at 2.30 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 Plymouth*.

*The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, August 15, 1877.

ADDRESS

OF

M.D., LL.D.,

THOMAS ANDREWS,

F.R.S., HON.F.R.S.E., ETC.

PRESIDENT.

Six and thirty years have passed over since the British Association for the Advancement of Science held its tenth meeting in this ancient city, and twenty-one years have elapsed since it last assembled here. The representatives of two great Scottish families presided on these occasions; and those who had the advantage of hearing the address of the Duke of Argyll in 1855 will recall the gratification they enjoyed while listening to the thoughtful sentiments which reflected a mind of rare cultivation and varied acquirements. On the present occasion I have undertaken, not without anxiety, the duty of filling an office at first accepted by one whom Scotland and the Association would alike have rejoiced to see in this Chair, not only as a tribute to his own scientific services, but also as recognizing in him the worthy representative of that long line of able men who have upheld the preeminent position attained by the Scottish schools of medicine in the middle of the last century, when the mantle of Boerhaave fell upon Monro and Cullen.

The task of addressing this Association, always a difficult one, is not rendered easier when the meeting is held in a place which presents the rare combination of being at once an ancient seat of learning and a great centre of modern industry. Time will not permit me to refer to the distinguished men who in carly days have left here their mark behind them; and I regret it the more, as there is a growing tendency to exaggerate the value of later discoveries, and to underrate the achievements of those who have lived before us. Confining our attention to a period reaching back to little more than a century, it appears that during that time three new sciences arose, at least as far as any science can be said to have a distinct origin, in this city of

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