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THE meeting of the British Association at Cambridge concluded yesterday. The meeting has been in every way a success. In all the sectional sessions large attendances were secured, and the general and social meetings were all successfully carried through and greatly appreciated. In regard to numbers of members, the Cambridge meeting was the largest since the Liverpool meeting of 1896. At this meeting there were 3181 members and associates, at the meeting just concluded at Cambridge the number of members and associates was 2783. It is interesting to compare the numbers of other large meetings with the one just held. The largest number of members and associates that have attended a meeting was at Manchester in 1887, when the number was 3838. At Newcastle in 1863 there were 3335, at Liverpool in 1870 there were 2878, and at Bath in 1864 the number was 2802. These meetings are the only ones which have had a larger attendance than that at Cambridge, and it is interesting to observe that in all these cases the meeting has been in a large city where the number of resident members and associates naturally would be very much larger than in a comparatively small town such as Cambridge. Compared with recent years the numbers, show a large increase. Last year in Southport 1754 attended the Association, in Belfast the year before there were 1620, and in Glasgow in 1901 there were 1912. Comparing the meeting just concluded with the three former meetings held in Cambridge we find a great increase in numbers. In 1833 there were 900 members and associates, in 1845 there were 1079,. and in 1862, 1161.
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This progress threatens to be rapid indeed. Since these lines were written Prof. Huhrecht, in an admirable exposition (Pop. Sci. Monthly, July, 1904) of D Vries' "Mutations-theorie," has even blamed me for having ten years ago attached any importance to continuous variation. Nevertheless, when the unit of segregation is small, something mistakahly like continuous evolution must surely exist. (Cp. Johannsen, "Ueb. Erblichkeit in Populationen und in reinen Linien," 1903)
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1898.
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The British Association at Cambridge . Nature 70, 397–413 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070397b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/070397b0