Date and Place Lecturer Subject of Discourse 1877. Plymouth... W. Warington Smyth, M.A., The Physical Phenomena connected 1885. Aberdeen... Prof. W. G. Adams, F.R.S.... The Electric Light and Atmospheric Absorption. John Murray, F.R.S.E.......... The Great Ocean Basins. 1886. Birmingham A. W. Rücker, M.A., F.R.S. Prof. W. Rutherford, M.D. ... 1887. Manchester Prof. H. B. Dixon, F.R.S. ... Soap Bubbles. The Sense of Hearing. The Rate of Explosions in Gases. Col. Sir F. de Winton, Explorations in Central Africa. K.C.M.G. 1888. Bath......... Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S.... Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc., 1889. Newcastle- Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, The Foundation Stones of the Earth's The Hardening and Tempering of Walter Gardiner, M.A......... How Plants maintain themselves in E. B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S.... the Struggle for Existence. Quartz Fibres and their Applications. Prof. A.W.Rücker, M.A.,F.R.S. Electrical Stress. 1892. Edinburgh Prof. A. Milnes Marshall, D.Sc., F.R.S. Pedigrees. Experimental Illustrations of the modes of detecting the Composition of the Sun and other Heavenly Bodies by the Spectrum. 1870. Liverpool... Sir John Lubbock, Bart.,M.P., Savages. F.R.S. W.Spottiswoode, LL.D.,F.R.S. Sunshine, Sea, and Sky. Prof. Odling, F.R.S............. The Discovery of Oxygen. OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES PRESENT AT THE IPSWICH MEETING. SECTION A.- -MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. President.-Professor W. M. Hicks, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents.-Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S.; Prof. O. Henrici, F.R.S.; Lord Kelvin, Pres.R.S.; Lord Rayleigh, Sec.R.S.; Prof. A. W. Rücker, F.R.S. Secretaries. Professor W. H. Heaton, M.A.; Professor A. Lodge, M.A. (Recorder); G. T. Walker, M.A.; W. Watson, B.Sc. SECTION B.-CHEMISTRY. President.-Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S., For.Sec.C.S. Vice Presidents.-Prof. P. P. Bedson, D.Sc.; Prof. H. B. Dixon, F.R.S.; Professor E. Frankland, D.C.L., F.R.S.; J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R.S.; Professor Ira Remsen, Ph.D.; Sir Henry E. Roscoe, D.C.L., F.R.S. Secretaries.-E. H. Fison; C. A. Kohn, Ph.D., B.Sc.; Arthur Harden, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Recorder); J. W. Rodger. SECTION C.-GEOLOGY. President.-W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents.-Gustave Dollfus; L. Fletcher, M.A., F.R.S.; F. W. Harmer; Rev. E. Hill, M.A.; J. E. Marr, M.A., F.R.S.; E. van den Broek. Secretaries.-F. A. Bather, M.A.; G. W. Lamplugh; Alfred Harker, M.A.; Clement Reid, F.L.S. (Recorder). SECTION D.-BIOLOGY. President.-Professor W. A. Herdman, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.R.S.E. SECTION E.-GEOGRAPHY. President.-H. J. Mackinder, M.A., F.R.G.S. Vice-Presidents.-Major L. Darwin; Col. H. H. Godwin Austen, F.R.S.; Sir Joseph Hooker, F.R.S.; J. Scott Keltie; John Murray, D.Sc. ; E. G. Ravenstein; Col. Sir C. Warren, F.R.S. Secretaries.-J. Coles, F.R.A.S.; H. N. Dickson, F.R.S.E.; Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc., F.R.S.E. (Recorder); W. A. Taylor, F.R.S.E. SECTION F.-ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. President.-L. L. Price, M.A., Vice-Presidents.-Professor F. Y. Edgeworth, M.A., D.C.L., F.S.S.; The Hon. Sir Charles Fremantle, K.C.B.; J. B. Martin; J. E. C. Munro ; R. H. Inglis Palgrave, F.R.S. Secretaries.-E. Cannan, M.A., F.S.S.; Professor E. C. K. Gonner, M.A., F.S.S. (Recorder); H. Higgs, LL.B. SECTION G.-MECHANICAL SCIENCE. President.-Professor L. F. Vernon Harcourt, M.A., M.Inst.C.E.. Secretaries.-Professor T. Hudson Beare, F.R.S.E. (Recorder); Conrad SECTION H.-ANTHROPOLOGY. President.-Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L. Vice-Presidents.-Sir John Evans, K.C.B., F.R.S.; Sir W. H. Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S.; R. Munro, M.D., F.R.S.E. Secretaries.-J. L. Myres, M.A.; Rev. J. J. Raven, D.D.; H. Ling Roth (Recorder). SECTION K.-BOTANY. President.-W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, C.M.G., C.I.E., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents.-Professor Bayley Balfour, M.A., F.R.S.; Professor F. O. Bower, F.R.S.; F. Darwin, F.R.S.; Sir Joseph Hooker, F.R.S. Secretaries.-Professor F. E. Weiss (Recorder); A. C. Seward, M.A. PRESIDENT. 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