The British Association

Abstract

THE fifty-second annual meeting of the British Association was opened yesterday at Southampton, when Sir John Lubbock resigned the presidency to Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., the president-elect. We have already given such full details concerning the arrangements, that at this stage little more remains to be said. All the provisions made by the local committee appear to be quite satisfactory, and although we cannot expect the attendance to be so large as at the Jubilee last year, still some eminent foreign men of science are expected— Helmholtz, Clausius, Du Bois Reymond, J. P. Cook, Langley, Von Rath, Baumhauer, and others.