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THE eighteenth meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of Science opened under the happiest auspices. The magnificent Exhibition on the Champ de Mars and the Esplanade des Invalides, which has attracted to Paris an exceptionally large number of foreign men of science, is in itself the most conclusive proof of French energy and the progress of French science during the last decade. It is, perhaps, as M. de Lacaze Duthiers remarked, a more effective declaration of a sincere desire for peace than the utterances of certain diplomatists. But there is no place for politics in the principles of the French Association. Foreigners of all nations have been welcomed to Paris not only with warm-hearted hospitality, but with an artistic splendour of which they may well be envious for their own countries, and to which we shall allude later.
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The French Association for the Advancement of Science. Nature 40, 394–398 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040394e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/040394e0