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MANCHESTER, Tuesday Evening. UP to the present the third Manchester meeting of the British Association promises to be as successful as everyone expected it would be. Probably no Local Committee has ever made more strenuous exertions to command success than that which for many months past has been busying itself with preparations for the present meeting. It would be difficult to suggest any improvements on the local preparations. The Reception Room in Owens College is spacious and is entirely confined to business. The Reading Rooms, Ladies' Rooms, Smoking Rooms, and Exhibition Galleries are all upstairs away from the crowd and noise. The Luncheon Rooms can accommodate hundreds, and the Sectional Rooms have had the special care of the Committee, several of whom know well the practical requirements of Sectional work. It is perhaps unfortunate that the rooms for D, E, F, and G are a long way from the Reception Room; but that has been unavoidable. The exhibition in the galleries of the Reading and Writing Room is of special interest. The anthropological collections contributed by Dr. Fritsch, Mr. Coutts Trotter, and others, are extensive and varied and highly instructive. Besides these there are collections of physical instruments by Sir William Thomson and Mr. W. H. Gee, and a fine series of models and apparatus for teaching practical physics in schools and colleges, exhibited by the Owens College Physical Department. In Section C, Prof. Boyd Dawkins exhibits several museum appliances, and Mr. J. H. Teall a series of specimens illustrating his paper on “The Origin of Certain Banded Gneisses.” Other exhibits come under Sections D, G, and H, and the whole collection is likely to attract many visitors.
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The British Association . Nature 36, 415–424 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036415a0
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