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Excerpt from The British Association for the Advancement of Science: A Retrospect, 1831-1921
The period of the foundation - Brewster's views on the position of science - The Deutscher Naturforscher Versammlung - Brewster and the Yorkshire Philosophical Society: Phillips and Harcourt - The first meeting: York, 1831 - Recollections of early meetings (brewster Murchison: Sedgwick: whewell)-opposition to the Association.
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