The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the British
Association will commence on Wednesday, September 4,
at Dundee. The official programme has just been issued.
It furnishes the following details :—The Royal Exchange
Reading-room will be open as • reception room on Monday,
September 2, at 12 cm., and on the following days as
8 a.m., for the issue of tickets to members, aasociates, and
ladies, according tothe subjoined statement, and for sup-
plying lists and prices of lodgings, and other information,
to strangers on their arrival. On and after Monday,
September 2, members and persons desirous of becoming
members or associates or of obtaining ladies' tickets are
requested to make application is this room. In this room
there will be an office for supplying information !needing
the proceedings of the mating. The " Journal,' contain-
ing announcements of the arrangements for each day, will
be laid on the table on Wednesday, September 4, and the
following mornings, at 8 a.m.' for gratuitous distribution.
Lists of members present will be anted as soon as possible
after the commencement of the meeting, and will be placed
in the same room for distribution. The published
volume' of the British Associetiou will be sold in this
room, to members and associates only, at the reduced
prices appointed by the council. The member's ticket
contains a map of Dundee, and particulars as to the rooms
appointed for sectional and other meetings. For the con-
venience of members and associates, • branch post-office
(which will be available also for communication between
members attending the meeting) will be opened for this
occasion is the reception-room. Members and associates
mey obtain railway tickets and information of local
arraregemenn appais tfiest • fie the load eseretaelse at
Dundee. The general committee will hold its fine ineefing
in Panmiireamset chapel on Wednesday, September 4,
at one p.m., for the election of sectional officers, and the
despateh of business usdally brought before that body.
The general committee will meet again in Parimursetneet
chapel on Monday,. September 9, at three p.m., for the
purpose of deciding on the place of meeting in 13. The
concludlng•-meeting of this committee will also he hold in
Pear:lure-street chapel on Wednesday, September
11, at one p.m, when the report of the sem-
mittee of recommendations will be received. The,
first general meeting will be held in the Kinnard-
hall, on Wednesday, September 4, at eight p.ni. precisel7.
when Mr. W. R. Grove, w.f., M.A., P. 8.5., ks., will
resign the chair, and his Grace the Duke of Ruceleuch,
K. 0., F.R.S., &a., will assume the presidency, and deliver
an address. The different sections will assemble in the
rooms appointed for them, for the reading and discussion
of reports and other communications, on Thursday. Sep- I
tember 5 ; Friday, September f • Saturday, September 7 ;
Monday, September 9; and Tuesday, September 10 ; at
eleven a.m. precisely. The committees of sections will
meet in rooms adjacent to the section rooms, at two p.m.
on Wednesday, September 4, and at ten a.m. precisely on
the other days. Persons desirous of reading eummunica-
tions in any section are requested to give early notice of
their intention, by letter, addressed to the Assistant-Ge-
neral Secretary. Reports on the progress of science, and
of researches intrusted to individuals and committees, are
expected to be forwarded in letters addressed to the As-
sistant-General Secretary, Dundee, previously to the
meeting, accompanied by • statement whether the author
will be present, and on what day, so that the business of
the sections may be satisfactorily arranged. The report/
complete, and concise abstracts of other communications,
are to be delivered to the secretaries of the sections before
which they are read, previously to the close of the meet-
ing, for publication in the transactions.
The sections are the following :
A.—Mathematical sad Physical Science.—ln the High
School. President, Professor Sir W. Thomson, D.C.L.,
F.R.S., &c. Vice-Presidents, Professor Reiland, F.R.S. ;
Mr. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S. Seeretariea, Professor Clifton,
M.A. ; Professor Cr. C. Foster, M.A. ; Professor Swan,
F. R.B li.
B.—Chemical Science.—ln the High School President,
Professor Thomas Anderson, M.D., F.R.Via-Pre-
*ideate, Mr. Maxwell Simpson, F.R.S.; Professor William-
son, F.R.S. Secretaries, Mr. A. Vernon Harcourt, Sec.
; Professor Liveing, M.A., F.C.S. ; Dr. Russell,
F.C.S.

C.—Geology.—ln Panmure-street chapel. President,
Mr. Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., F.G.S. Vice-Presidents,
Sir Philip Egerton, Bart., F.R.B. ; Professor Ramsay,
F.R.S. Secretaries, Mr. W. Pengelly, F.H.B. ; Mr. H.
Sorby, F.R.S.
D.—Biology.—ln the High School. President, Professor
Sheepsy, Sec. R.S. Vios-Pregidenta, Professor
F.lt 3. ; Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S.. Secretaries,
Dr. Spencer Cobbold, F.R.S.; Mr. H. L &Milton, F.R.S.;
Rev. H. B. Tristram, ILA., F.L.S. ; Professor W. Turner,
M. 8., F.R.S.E.; Mr. E. B. Tylor.
E.--Geography and Etlinology.—ln the Albert Institute.
President, Sir Samuel Baker, F.R.G.B. Vise-Preeidents,
I Mr. John Crawford, ; Sir Roderick Murchison.
Bart., F.R.S. Secretaries, Mr. H. W. Bates. Aasittant-
Secretar7 Geographical
_ Society ; Mr. Clements It. Mark-
ham, F.E.G.S.; Mr. 0. W. Nasti,; Mr. Themes Wright,
M.A.
F.—Economic Science and Stativtice.—ln Euclid-atreet
Chapel. President, Mr. M. F.. Grant Ihiff,M.P., M.A. Vice-
Presidenta, Dr. Farr, F.R.S.; Coknel Sykes, M.P., F.B.S.
Secretaries, Professor Leoni Levi, F.B.A. ; Mr. Edmund
MacG.
Mechanical
Science.—ln Watt Hall, Constittition-
road. President, Professor W. J. Mac worn Rankine,
LL.D., F.A.S. Vice-Presidents, Mr. W Fel/bairn,
F.R.B. ; General Lefrey, R.A., F.R.S. Secretaries, Mr. P.
Le Neve Foster, Nee.,
The sectional officers will be proposed for election to the
general eenswittse on Wednesday, September 4.
The following general and evening meetings have been
arranged :—On Wednesday evening. Sept. 4, at 8 p.m., in
the Kinnaini.hall, the President's Address. On Thursday
evening, Sept. 8, at 8 p.m., in theVolunteers'-hall, sair;:o.
On Friday evening, Sept. 6, at 8.30 p.m., in the Kinnsird-
hall, a discourse will be deliveredby Mr. Archbald Gaikie,
F.H.8., Director of the Geological Survey of Scotland, on
the Geological Origin of the present Scenery of Scotland.
' On Monday evening, Sept 9, at 8.30 p.m., in the Kinnaird.
hall, a discourse will be &hewed by Mr. Alexander
Herschel, F.R.A.8., on Sisower.liet•ore. On Tuesday
evening, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m.. in the Volunteer-drill-hall,
&Arne. Wednesday, Sept. 11, concluding General Meet-
ing, at 3 p.m. Excursions on Saturday, Sept. 7, and
Thursday, Sept. 12.

As Our-Spoxas ParAcHnt.—The following
paragraph is " going the rounds" of the country papers :
Father Ignatius, like the Marquis of Westmeath, is of
opinion that the reporters are a bad set. In his sermon
last Sunday he called upon thew, if any were present, to
note carefully every word he was about to utter, but he
doubted if they would ; it would net pit the Devil to let
them do that. Perhaps there were some Christian editors
us the church-editors of some dissenting papers—it did
not matter ; perhaps aU the better. Let them publish
to the world what he was about to say. Mr. Lyre
then, in very plain language, attacked the morality
of public schoots. Did parents, he asked, know
what they were paying SOL 100 f., aye, even 200/.
• year for ? Why, of course, it was for the education
of their soma Education ! It was nothing of the sort.
Our public schools, without exception, were hotbeds of the
worst kinds of infamy and vice. They were abodes of
horrible sins and filth, and boys were being brought up
straight for bell-fire. Young ladies'schools, too, were just
as tol. It would n do in this enlightened nineteenth
century to attempt to teach religion in our schools, The
man woo did so would be laughed at, and put clown as a
fool. Schoolmasters advertised the number of pupil, who
bad pined fellow.hipa and passed examinations for
public offices, but they
love Jesus. Indeed there was no such thing as school-boy
religion. Why even in the schools adjoining the church,
where a charge of only a penny • week was made,
the parents made no end of a noise because they took
the children to church on festivals. Now, • festival
lid not occur above once • month, but the parents would
have it they paid their penny for their children to be
taught that two shillings and two shillings made four shil-
lings, but they would not have any more religion, there
was too much of it already ; and this spirit pervaded all
classes. Mr. Lyne then referred to the morality of what
was termed the fashionable world. He could not express
what he felt whenever he was told Mies So-and-So was to
be " brought out" the next season. Brought out ! What
for? To be prepared for hell. How did ladies go to these
ball,? Dressed? No, stripped half naked. And what
did Jesus see in these ball-rooms' Filth ! filth ! filth !
Oh, the tales mothers and grandmothers bad toll him of
young ladies "coming out." The reporter who sends us
these notes does not pretend that he obeyed the preacher's
orders, and took down all he said. If he had done so,
there would have been no bore of their appearing in print.
It is hardly necessary to add that the sermon was listened
to with great attention.
SOUTH KENSINGTON HOTELCOMPANY (LIMITED).
—Yesterday an extraordinary general meeting of the
shareholders in this company took pbioe at the hotel. Mr.
T. V. Morgan, the chairman, in moving the adoption of
the audited accounts, said it would remain with the
meeting whether the business of the hotel should be car-
ried on another year or otherwise. The receipts showed
a falling off of nearly 3001. on the corresponding period of
last ear. If they decided on carrying on the hotel for
another ,twelvemonths, the directors would freely give
their services, and the rr.anacer bad consented voluntarily
to, have his salary reduced by 1001.. end the secretary by
701. (Applause.) On the motion of Dr. Griffith, seconded
by Mr. Anderson, it was resolved that the directors be
requested to carry on the business of the hotel for another
year.
To destroy the turnip fly take road-dust, soot,
and a small proportion of guano, mix them together, and
sow them along the rows in the middle of the day ; in •
short time the files will disappear. A little sulphur may
be used instead of guano. Some persons prefer applying
it is the night when the ground is wet with dew.