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General Meetings.

On Wednesday, September 11, at 8 P.M., in the Public Hall, Ipswich, the Most Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., D.C.L., F.R.S. (represented by the Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, D.C.L., Pres.R.S.) resigned the office of President to Captain Sir Douglas Galton, K.C.B., D.C.L, LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., who took the Chair, and delivered an Address, for which see page 3.

On Thursday, September 12, at 8.30 P.M., a Soirée took place at the Museum.

On Friday, September 13, at 8.30 P.M., in the Public Hall, Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., delivered a discourse on Magnetism in Rotation.'

On Monday, September 16, at 8.30 P.M., in the Public Hall, Professor Percy F. Frankland, F.R.S., delivered a discourse on 'The Work of Pasteur and its Various Developments.'

On Tuesday, September 17, at 8.30 P.M., a Soirée took place at the Museum.

On Wednesday, September 18, at 2.30 P.M., in the Lecture Hall, 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 Liverpool. [The Meeting is appointed to commence on Wednesday, September 16, 1896.]

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.

1895.

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ADDRESS

BY

SIR DOUGLAS GALTON, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S.,

PRESIDENT.

My first duty is to convey to you, Mr. Mayor, and to the inhabitants of Ipswich, the thanks of the British Association for your hospitable invitation to hold our sixty-fifth meeting in your ancient town, and thus to recall the agreeable memories of the similar favour which your predecessors conferred on the Association forty-four years ago.

In the next place I feel it my duty to say a few words on the great loss which science has recently sustained-the death of the Right Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley. It is unnecessary for me to enlarge, in the presence of so many to whom his personality was known, upon his charm in social and domestic life; but upon the debt which the Association owes to him for the assistance which he rendered in the promotion of science I cannot well be silent. Huxley was preeminently qualified to assist in sweeping away the obstruction by dogmatic authority, which in the early days of the Association fettered progress in certain branches of science. For, whilst he was an eminent leader in biological research, his intellectual power, his original and intrepid mind, his vigorous and masculine English, made him a writer who explained the deepest subject with transparent clearness. And as a speaker his lucid and forcible style was adorned with ample and effective illustration in the lecture-room; and his energy and wealth of argument in a more public arena largely helped to win the battle of evolution, and to secure for us the right to discuss questions of religion and science without fear and without favour.

It may, I think, interest you to learn that Huxley first made the

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