The North British Review (Volume 11-12) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851. Excerpt: ... British Association for tltc Advancement of Science. 235 Art. IX.--1. First Report of the Proceedings, Recommendations, and Transactions of the British Association for the Advancement of /Science. York: 1832. 2. The British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1850. In the Palladium, No. II., pp. 194-215. September, 1850. The British Association has now entered the year of its majority. It has assembled twenty times since its establishment, holding its meetings in the following places: --At tifteen of these cities the Association has met once, and at five of them it has met twice, at the earnest solicitation of their Universities and literary institutions, and there are, at this moment, several applications from large and influential cities where the Association has not yet been assembled. Thus countenanced and sustained by all the Universities, and by all the scientific and literary societies in the kingdom, the British Association, in entering the year of its manhood, may now be regarded as a permanent institution for the advancement of science to which all others have yielded a willing supremacy, and which may, without presumption, invite the attention of the public to its history, its constitution, and its labours. As the last, and, in the estimation of many, one of the most successful of its meetings, was held in Scotland, it will not be deemed inappropriate in a North British Review to devote a few of its pages to the history of an institution which originated in the North, and which, on two occasions, has received such distinguished support from the philosophers in our metropolis. The British Association took its origin from a discussion on the decline of science in England, and the neglect of scientific men, which excited much attention betw..