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Excerpt from The Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 1915, Vol. 13
In tracing what led up to the foundation of the. Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, we must go back to the time when mechanics' institutes became popular and held their sway for a quarter of a century or more. The first Mechanics' Institute, properly so called, was organized in Glasgow by George Birkbeck in 1823, being followed in 1824 by that at London. From them soon sprang many others, on a wider basis, the original idea having been merely to teach mechanics the principles of their trades. From these institutes have arisen various technical and other organizations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
