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EDINBURGH.
AN Edinburgh meeting of the British Association seems almost a home meeting. At every turn we are reminded of some of those who bore their part in founding and building up the Parliament of Science. Sir David Brewster meets us in the University quadrangle. The chair now set apart for the President of Section A was occupied for many years by James David Forbes, while for one brief year Natural History in Edinburgh was identified with Edward Forbes, to whom the Association owes, among many greater things, the evolution of the Red Lion. Viewed through the vista of years, the intellectual life of Edinburgh seems to have been marked by the combination of the love of science and letters with the full enjoyment of social intercourse, and we have before us such evidence of the persistence of this trait as bodes well for the success of the meeting.
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An experiment by Hittorf (Wied. Ann. vii., p. 614) suggested the probability of this fact, which was proved independently by Airhenius and myself.
The efforts of Mr. Bigelow have a bearing on this point, also some remarks which I have made in a lecture before the Royal Institution (Proc. Roy. Inst. 1891), but nothing decisive can be asserted at present.
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The British Association. Nature 46, 316–331 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046316c0
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