The Meetings of the British and French Associations in 1899

Abstract

THE meeting of the British Association next year, as we have already announced, will be held at Dover contemporaneously with the meeting of the Association Françhise at Boulogne, in order that the two bodies may interchange visits. It has been arranged that the visitors from France shall cross over to Dover on Saturday, September 16, and that the return visit of the members of our Association shall take place on the following Thursday. The arrangements on both sides of the Channel, for the reception of the visitors, are not yet completed; but we understand that while the members of the British Association are at Boulogne, the interesting ceremony of inaugurating a statue of our poet Campbell will take place; and that, at Dover, Dr. Charles Richet, the distinguished professor of physiology in the University of Paris (Faculte de Medecine) has consented to deliver one of the evening discourses. Dr. Richet's interesting reply to the official request, which was sent to him through Dr. Michael Foster, the President-elect, is as follows:—