Dover is this year the site of the Annual Conference of the British Associntion; the Tittle seaport cannot offer so much to the savants in the way of hospitality and tertainment as some of the larger towns which they have visited; and so far there has been nothing of sensational interest in the proceedings. Sir Michael Foster, the President of the year, attempted in his address to summarise the scientificachievements of the century which is drawing to a close; but so large a subject could of course only be dealt with in the mevest outline, within the limits of a Presidential address. A visit to Boulogne and a reception of French savants were among the items of the programme, and there was a proposal to omit these in view of the Rennes judyment. This unwise advice was, however, reject science fraternised as if the famous phrase of a French War-Minister were true, and ila'y fruit pas @Agaire Dreyfus.
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