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THE first session of the French Association for the Promotion of Science, closely modelled after that at Britain, was held at Bordeaux from the 5th to the 12th of September, and seems in all respects to have been successful and satisfactory. As is usual at similar meetings everywhere, the citizens of Bordeaux lavished their hospitality upon the members, who well deserved this as well as the gratitude of the French generally for inaugurating a movement to spread among that nation a knowledge of and love for science, and thus inform and temper their often misleading enthusiasm; in the words of M. Quatrefages, βto renovate our country by the scientific spirit and scientific studies.β The meetings were well attended both by French and foreign savans, though the only two English ones whose names we notice were Prof. Odling and Dr. Gladstone. The Society already numbers 800 members, and, as will be seen by M. G. Masson's paper, its finances are in a flourishing condition. The first general meeting was presided over by M. de Quatrefages (the president-elect for next year), in room of M. Claude Bernard, the state of whose health prevented him from attending.
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The French Association Meeting at Bordeaux . Nature 6, 444β446 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006444a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/006444a0