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THE formation of this Association, mainly by the efforts of Prof. Liversidge, of Sydney University, and its first meeting in Sydney in August 1888, were noticed at the time in NATURE (vol. xxxviii. pp. 437, 623). One of the chief rules of the Association is that it shall meet in turn in the capital cities of the various colonies; and Melbourne was agreed upon as the second meeting-place. It was found inconvenient, however, to hold the Melbourne meeting during 1889, as should have happened in due course, for it is only after Christmas that all the Universities are simultaneously in vacation; and accordingly it was commenced on the 7th of January in the present year, and was continued through the following week. Some anxiety was felt as to the result of this choice of date, for there is always a risk in January of such continuous heat as would hinder the work and destroy the pleasure of the meeting; but the Association proved to be specially favoured in the matter of weather.
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MASSON, O. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Nature 41, 441–443 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041441c0
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