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IT is often pointed out that the meetings of the British Association can never be so important in the future in the estimation of the public as they were in the past. First, because there used to be only one yearly congress attracting general attention; now there are many, and any such meeting is a great expense to a town. Secondly, the most important function of the meeting, the temporary creation of an interest in natural sgieace, is less wanted, because everybody now takes an interest in science, and almost every city now visited has a science college where evening lectures are given. Thirdly, the disappearance of the pioneers of the Huxley type, whose names wears well known outside scientific circles. Fourthly, the death of that interest which used to lie recited by the quarrel between science and religion.
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PERRY, J. The British Association at Dundee. . Nature 90, 41–42 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090041a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/090041a0