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IN about six weeks' time, on August 30, the citizens of Portsmouth will have the privilege of welcoming the members of the British Association for their annual meeting. In many respects this meeting will be a contrast to that at Sheffield last year. Portsmouth cannot offer the attractions of large engineering works or manufactories, but at the same time it holds a unique position as the first naval port of the United Kingdom, and one of the most ancient of its boroughs. The borough of Portsmouth fifty or sixty years ago included only a small portion of the island of Portsea, on which the town is situated. There were walls and gates (which were closed every day at sunset) and a military governor. The walls are gone, but some of the old parts of the town are still well worth a visit. Three years ago the borough boundary was enlarged, now including the whole of the Island of Portsea.
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The Portsmouth Meeting of the British Association . Nature 87, 84–86 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087084b0
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