The British Association Meeting in Liverpool.—Local Arrangements

Abstract

THE preparations for the British Association Meeting in Liverpool next September are now going on rapidly. A large and influential Local Committee of about 500 of the leading citizens, under the chairmanship of the Lord Mayor (the Earl of Derby), was appointed a couple of years ago. The smaller Executive Committee has broken up into Sub-Committees dealing with the subjects of—(1) Finance, (2) Hospitality, (3) Buildings, (4) Excursions, (5) Publications, and (6) Evening Entertainments. Most of these Sub-Committees have been actively at work for the last few months, and a report embodying the results of their deliberations has just been submitted to a meeting of the large Committee held in the Town Hall. The following is an outline of the arrangements completed so far:—