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THE annual meeting for this year of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences opened at Geneva on the loth instant under the presidentship of Prof. Louis Soret. This precursor of all itinerant scientific societies was founded in 1815 in Geneva, and the present is its seventh meeting in the city of its birth. The members and visitors were received on the evening of the 9th in the salons of the celebrated Palais Eynard, which, after being long closed, were opened specially for the occasion. After the presidential address on the loth, a new committee for the forthcoming period of six years was appointed, with its seat at Berne, the next meeting was fixed to take place at Frauenfeld, in Thurgau, and Prof. Grubenmann was elected president.
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The Swiss Society of Natural Sciences . Nature 34, 373–374 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034373a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/034373a0