Report of the Annual Meeting

OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES PRESENT AT THE OXFORD MEETING.

SECTION A.-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

President.-Professor A. W. Rücker.

Vice-Presidents.-R. E. Baynes, M.A.; Professor R. B. Clifton, M.A., F.R.S.; Professor E. B. Elliott, M.A., F.R.S.; Professor W. Esson, M.A., F.R.S.; R. T. Glazebrook, M.A., F.R.S.; Lord Kelvin, Pres.R.S.; Lord Rayleigh, Sec.R.S.

Secretaries.-Professor W. H. Heaton, M.A.; Professor A. Lodge, M.A. (Recorder); J. Walker, M.A.

SECTION B.-CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY.

President.-Professor H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S.

Vice Presidents.-Sir F. A. Abel, Bart., K.C.B., F R.S.; Professor E. Frankland, D.C.L., F.R.S.; J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R S.; Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S., For.Sec.C.S.; Professor W. Odling, Ph.D., F.R.S., V.P.C.S.; Professor J. Emerson Reynolds, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.; Sir Henry E. Roscoe, D.C.L., F.R.S.

Secretaries.-H. A. Colefax, M.A., Ph.D.; W. W. Fisher, M.A.; Arthur Harden, M.Sc., Ph.D.; H. Forster Morley, D.Sc. (Recorder).

SECTION C.-GEOLOGY.

President.-L. Fletcher, M.A., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.-Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S.; Sir Archibald Geikie, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.; Professor A. H. Green, F.R.S.; Dr. H. Hicks, F.R.S.; Dr. E. Mojsisovics von Mojsvár; Professor A. F. Renard; Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn, F.R.S.; H. Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S.

Secretaries.-F. A. Bather, M.A.; Alfred Harker, M.A.; Clement Reid; W. W. Watts, M.A. (Recorder).

SECTION D.-BIOLOGY.

President.-Professor I. Bayley Balfour, M.A., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.-The Right Hon. T. H. Huxley, D.C.L., F.R.S.; Professor E. Ray Lankester, M.A., F.R.S.; Professor Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S.; Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S.; P. L. Sclater, Ph.D., F.R.S.; W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, M.A., F.R.S.; Rev. H. B. Tristram, M.A., LL.D., D.D., F.R.S.; Professor S. H. Vines, M.A., F.R.S.

Secretaries.-W. B. Benham, D.Sc., M.A.; Professor J. B. Farmer, M.A., F.L.S.; Professor W. A. Herdman, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.R.S.E.; Professor S. J. Hickson, M.A., D.Sc. (Recorder); G. Murray, F.R.S.E., F.L.S.; W. L. Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S.

SECTION E.-GEOGRAPHY.

President. Captain W. J. L. Wharton, R.N., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.-Professor Guido Cora; J. Scott Keltie; H. J. Mackinder, M.A.; The Warden of Merton College; Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney, C.B., F.R.S.; E. G. Ravenstein; Henry Seebohm, F.L.S.; Lieut.-General R. Strachey, R.E., C.S.I., F.R.S.

Secretaries.-J. Coles, F.R.G.S.; W. Scott Dalgleish, LL.D.; H. N. Dickson, F.R.S.E.; Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc., F.R.S.E. (Recorder).

SECTION F. -ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS.

President.-Professor C. F. Bastable, M.A., F.S.S.

Vice-Presidents.-Professor W. Cunningham, D.D.; Professor F. Y. Edgeworth, M.A., D.C.L., F.S.S.; The Hon. Sir Charles Fremantle, K.C.B.; Professor J. S. Nicholson, M.A., D.Sc., F.S.S.; R. H. Inglis Palgrave, F.R.S.; L. L. Price, M.A., F.S.S.; Professor H. Sidgwick, Litt.D.

Secretaries.-E. Cannan, M.A., F.S.S.; Professor E. C. K. Gonner, M.A., F.S.S. (Recorder); W. A. S. Hewins, M.A., F.S.S.; H. Higgs, LL.B.

SECTION G.-MECHANICAL SCIENCE.

President.-Professor A. B. W. Kennedy, F.R.S., M.Inst.C.E.
Vice-Presidents.-Lieut.-Colonel Allan Cunningham; G. F. Deacon,

M.Inst.C.E.; Professor L. F. Vernon Harcourt, M.A., M.Inst.C.E.; Jeremiah Head, M.Inst.C.E., F.C.S.; Sir A. Noble, K.C.B., F.R.S. Secretaries.-Professor T. Hudson Beare, F.R.S.E. (Recorder); Conrad W. Cooke; W. Bayley Marshall, M.Inst.C.E.; Rev. F. J. Smith, M.A., F.R.S.

SECTION H.-ANTHROPOLOGY.

President.-Sir W. H. Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.-Sir John Evans, K.C.B., F.R.S.; Professor Max Müller, D.C.L.; Professor A. H. Sayce, M.A.; E. B. Tylor, D.C.L., F.R.S.

Secretaries.-H. Balfour, M.A.; J. G. Garson, M.D. (Recorder); H. Ling Roth.

SECTION 1.-PHYSIOLOGY.

President. -Professor E. A. Schäfer, F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.-Professor M. Foster, M.D., F.R.S.; Professor J. G. McKendrick, M.D., F.R.S.; Professor W. Rutherford, M.D., F.R.S. ; Professor J. S. Burdon Sanderson, M.D., F.R.S.

Secretaries. Professor F. Gotch, F.R.S.; J. S. Haldane, M.A., M.D. (Recorder); M. S. Pembrey, M.A., M B.

PRESIDENT.

THE MOST HON. THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY, K.G., D.C.L., F.R.S., Chancellor of the
University of Oxford.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

The Right Hon. the EARL OF JERSEY, G.C.M.G., | The MAYOR OF Oxford.

Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Oxford.
The Right Hon. LORD WANTAGE,K.C.B.,V.O., Lord-
Lieutenant of Berkshire.

The Right Hon. the EARL OF ROSEBERY, K.G.,
D.C.L., F.R.S.

The Right Rev. the LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD, D.D.
The Right Hon. LORD ROTHSCHILD, Lord-Lieu-
tenant of Bucks.

The Right Hon. LORD KELVIN, D.C.L., Pres.R.S.
The Rev. the VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVER-
SITY OF OXFORD.

Sir W. R. ANSON, D.C.L., Warden of All Souls"
College.

Sir BERNHARD SAMUELSON, Bart., M.P., F.R.S.
Sir HENRY DYKE ACLAND, Bart., K.C.B., M.D
F.R.S., Regius Professor of Medicine.
The Rev. the MASTER OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE,
Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy.
Dr. J. J. SYLVESTER, F.R.S., Savilian Professor of
Geometry.

PRESIDENT ELECT.

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

VICE-PRESIDENTS ELECT.

The Most Hon. the MARQUIS of BRISTOL, M.A.,
Lord Lieutenant of the County of Suffolk.
The Right Hon. LORD WALSINGHAM, LL.D., F.R.S.,
High Steward of the University of Cambridge.
The Right Hon. LORD RAYLEIGH, D.C.L., Sec.R.S.,
Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Essex.
The Right Hon. LORD GWYDYR, M.A., High
Steward of the Borough of Ipswich.

The Right Hon. LORD HENNIKER, F.S.A.
The Right Hon. LORD RENDLESHAM.
The MAYOR of IPSWICH.

Sir G. G. STOKES, Bart., D.C.L.. F.R.S.
Dr. E. FRANKLAND, D.C.L., F.R S.
Professor G. H. DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S.
FELIX T. COBBOLD, Esq., M.A.

GENERAL SECRETARIES.

Capt. Sir Douglas Galton, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., 12 Chester Street, London, S.W. A. G. VERNON HARCOURT, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., Cowley Grange, Oxford.

ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY.

G. GRIFFITH, Esq., M.A., College Road, Harrow, Middlesex.

G. H. HEWETSON, Esq.

GENERAL TREASURER.

E. P. RIDLEY, Esq.

Professor ARTHUR W. RÜCKER, M.A., F.R.S., Burlington House, London, W.
LOCAL SECRETARIES FOR THE MEETING AT IPSWICH.
S. A. NOTCUTT, Esq., B.A., LL.M., B.Sc.
LOCAL TREASURERS FOR THE MEETING AT IPSWICH.
H. J. W. JERVIS, Esq.

ROGER KERRISON, Esq.

The Trustees, the President and President Elect, the Presidents of former years, the Vice-Presidents and Vice-Presidents Elect, the General and Assistant General Secretaries for the present and former years, the Secretary, the General Treasurers for the present and former years, and the Local Treasurers and Secretaries for the ensuing Meeting.

TRUSTEES (PERMANENT).

The Right Hon. Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., M.P., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S.
The Right Hon. Lord RAYLEIGH, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., Sec.R.S., F.R.A.S.

The Right Hon. Lord PLAYFAIR, K.C.B., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.