We can only give the briefest notice of the papers
read before the British Association on Thursday. Mr. H. Samuel, the Postmaster-General, discussed the question of Federal Government with specific reference to the Empire, and gave his reasons for holding that while the constitution of the United Kingdom was over-centralised and should be developed in a federal direction, that of the Empire was clearly under- centralised. Mr. Norman Angell dealt with international relations on the lines of his book, "The Great Illusion," viz., that war stood condemned on economic as well as moral grounds. Other interesting papers were those of Dr. Leonard Hill, who finds in ventilation the best antidote to many of the ills to which modern flesh is heir, and of Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, who pleaded for the preservation of wild animals as a duty owed by us to posterity.
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