The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-12 00:00:00

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SPOHR'S "LAST JUDGMENT,"
Will be performed
THIS PRESENT TUESDAY, the 12th Instant,

ADMISSION-ONE SHILLING

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD-
VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

The RECEPTION COMMITTEE is desirous of ascertaining
the names of those Gentlemen and Ladies who are willing to
entertain any of the Members of the Association at the ap-
proaching Meeting, which extends from the 20th to the 27th
of September instant.
The Committee also wishes to be informed of all Private
Families who will take Members as Lodgers during the Meet-
ing, and also the names and addresses of respectable Hotel
and Lodging-house Keepers. Letters are requested upon
these matters, addressed to Mr. THOMAS C. ARCHER, Secre-
tary of Reception Committee, 8, Lord street, Liverpool.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD-
VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
The TWENTY-FOURTH MEETING of the ASSOCIA-
TION will be held in the Sr. GEORGE'S-HALL, Liverpool.
It will commence on WEDNESDAY, the 20th instant, and close
On WEDNESDAY, the 27th.
OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

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The Earl

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The Lord Wrottesley, A.S.
Sir Philip de Maloss Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S.
Richard Owen, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Hunte-
rian Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Royal
College of Surgeons of England.
Rev. William Whewell, D.D., F.R.S., Honorary Member
R.1.A., F.G.S., F.R.A.S., Master of Trinity College, and
Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Cam-
bridge.
William Lassell, Esq., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.
Joseph Brooks Yates, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.G.S.

GENERAL SECRETARY

Colonel Edward Sabine, R.A., Treasurer and V.P.R.S
F.R.A.S., Woolwich.
ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY.
John Phillips, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S.
GENERAL TREASVRER.
John Taylor, Esq., F.R.S.
LOCAL SECRETARIES.
Joseph Dickinson, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.
Thomas Inman, M.D.
LOCAL TREASURER.
Robert Withdrew, Esq., F.R.S.
OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

The objects of the British Association are to give a stronger
impulse and more systematic direction to scientific inquiry,
to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate science in
different
.parts of the British Empire with one another and
with foreign philosophers, to obtain more general attention
to the object of science, and the removal of any disadvantages
of a public kind which impede its progress.
The Local Committee have power to admit Members pro-
visionally on the following terms :
1. As Life Members by payment of a composition of £lO,
which entitles them to receive gratuitously the Reports of the
Association published after the date of payment.
2. As Annual Subscribers by a payment of .£2 for the first
year. These receive gratuitously the Reports for the year of
their admission, and for every following year in which they
continue to pay a subscription of .e]. They may drop their
Subscriptions when they please, and renew them without
payin.2; Arrears or a Second Entrance Fee.

- 3. As Associates for this Meeting- only on payment of £l.
These are entitled to receive a report of the Meeting at Two-
thirds of the Publication Price. Ladies may become Mem-
bers on the same terms as Gentlemen; and Ladies' Tickets
(transferable to Ladies only) may be obtained by payment of
.el.

Old Life Members who have paid a composition of £5, and
no more, may attend the Meetings, but are not entitled to
receive the Reports.
Members who paid 42 for their Tickets at the last Meeting
will have to pay only on the present occasion.
Without a Member's or Associate's Ticket no Person is ad-
mitted to any of the Meetings. There will be Three Evening
Meetings :—On WEDNESDAY, the 20th, when the Earl of
Harrowby will deliver the Annual Address; on FRIDAY, the
22nd, when Professor Owen will give a Discourse on the Man-
like Apes; and on MONDAY, the 25th, when Colonel Sabine
will give a Discourse on Terrestrial Magnetism.
There will be a Soirée in St. George's-hall, on THURSDAY,
the 21st, and on TUESDAY, the 26th, when some interesting
Experiments will be shown.

There will be a Soiree and Lecture in the Philharmonic-
hall, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th, under the management of the
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.
Meetings will be held Daily in each of the Seven Lecture-
rooms, from Eleven to Three o'clock, for the Reading of
Papers and Discussion.

The Section-rooms will Open for Conversation from Ten to
Eleven o'clock.

Two Ordinaries will be provided Daily at Five o'clock.
Applications for Tickets may be made to the LOCAL
TREASURER or SECRETARY, or at the Reception-room at
the time of the Meeting. Further information may be ob.
tained from the Local Sccretaries,
JOSEPH DICKINSON,
THOMAS INMAN, -