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THERE are already signs that the meeting of the British Association, to be held this year at Oxford, will be a success. It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the city of Oxford is this year destitute of municipal buildings, the old buildings having been pulled down, while the new have scarcely their walls raised to the level of the first floor. But this deficiency is amply compensated by the numerous University and College buildings which have been placed at the disposal of the Local Executive Committee. The reception room will be in the entrance hall of the new Examination Schools in HighStreet, and the rooms for the meetings of Council, of the General Committee, and of Sections E and F will be held in the same building, the large south and east writing schools lending themselves particularly well for the departments of Geography and Economics and Statistics. The meeting rooms of the remaining sections will be distributed among the University Museum and among Colleges which are on the direct road between the Schools and the Museum. Section A (Mathematical and Physical Science) will meet in the Lecture Theatre of the Clarendon Laboratory, and the allied Section G (Mechanical Science) will meet in close contiguity in Keble College Hall. Section B (Chemistry) will meet in the Chemical Theatre, and for larger meetings will have the use of the large Lecture Theatre in the Museum. Section C (Geology) will meet in Hertford College Hall; Section D (Biology) in the Anatomical Theatre. Section H (Anthropology) will be accommodated in Prof. Arthur Thomson's new Hall of Anatomy, and will have the advantage of being in close proximity to the Pitt-Rivers Museum. The new Section I (Physiology) will perhaps be better off than any, as the whole of the new Physiological Laboratories will be at its disposal.
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The Oxford Meeting of the British Association. Nature 50, 151 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050151a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/050151a0