5 SEPTEMBER 1908, page 3

Amongst Other Interesting Papers Read On Thursday Before...

sections of the British Association, we may note that of Sir Horace Plunkett on "Science and the Problem of Rural Life." That problem, he observed, had been forced to the very......

The Report Of The Inland Revenue Commissioners For The Year

ended March 31st, published on Tuesday as a Blue-book, is a document of more than usual interest. The general results for the year show that while there was an increase of only......

Mr.w. M. Acworth, The President Of The Economic Science And

Statistics Section, read a most interesting paper on the State in relation to railways. Mr. Acworth is claimed by the followers of Mr. Lloyd George and Mr Winston Churchill as......

For The Rest, The Significance Of Mr. Darwin's Address...

largely in his championship of the doctrine of the inheritance of acquired characters so vigorously impeached by Weismann and other distinguished men of science. Some of his......

Speaking At The National Eisteddfod On Thursday, Mr....

delivered an eloquent panegyric of Wales and the Welsh, "a nation that has lived through centuries of oppression, contempt, slander, and treachery, and is now as much alive and......

Mr. S. H. Butcher, M.p., In Proposing A Resolution Pro-

testing against the encouragement given to cattle-driving by the Government, said it was not with them a question of dis- crediting a Government. What they wished was to make......

On Wednesday Evening Mr. Francis Darwin Delivered The...

at the meeting of the British Associa- tion in Dublin. After alluding to the loss sustained by the Association by the deaths of Lord Kelvin and Sir John Evans, Mr. Darwin noted......

The White Star Line Has Decided To Build Two Ships

longer, deeper, and broader than the Lusitania' and Mauretania.' It is said that the gross tonnage will be about eight thousand tons more than that of the Ounarders; and Messrs.......

Bank Bate, 24 Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.

May 28th. Consols (24) were on Friday 854—on Friday week 86i.......