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THE reputation for industry which Section A has acquired in past years will not suffer in any way by the proceedings of the recent meeting in Bristol. In addition to the ordinary meetings of the Section, the International Magnetic Conference met on four days; and as all communications to the Section relating to terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity were referred to the Conference, it may be said that the Section sat in duplicate on five out of its six days of meeting. On Saturday, when the Magnetic Conference did not meet, the two departments were devoted to mathematics and meteorology respectively, and on Wednesday the Section was not divided. On two occasions the Section was associated with others in joint discussions, namely with Section B, on the results of the recent solar eclipse expeditions, and with Section G, on the magnetic and electrolytic effects of electric railways. The members of the International Magnetic Conference also took part in the latter discussion. The papers read before the Section were representative of almost every branch of physics. In the following account they are grouped according to subject, and are not arranged in the order in which they were read.
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Physics at the British Association. Nature 58, 532–534 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058532a0
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