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Opening Address by the President, Prof. J. Burdon Sanderson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.
IT having been made a part of the duty of the chairman of each of the sections into which this Exhibition is divided to deliver an opening address, I had no difficulty in selecting a subject. I propose to place before you a short and very elementary account, addressed rather to those who are not specially acquainted with biology than to those who are devoted to the science, in which I shall give you a description of a few of the methods which are used in biological investigation, particularly with reference to the measurement and illustration of vital phenomena. You are aware that the Committee, in order to render these conferences as useful as possible, have thought it desirable that we should devote our attention chiefly to those subjects of which the instruments in the collection contribute the best examples.
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The Loan Collection Conferences: Section—Biology. Nature 14, 117–119 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014117a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/014117a0