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IT is hardly yet possible to give anything like an accurate estimate of the number of members likely to be present at the meeting of the Association, but it is probable that there will be at least 1500 visitors. The foreign members of the Association will be well represented. Prof. Chappuis, of Paris, will discuss Thermometry in Section A. It is likely that Prof. Remsen will pay a flying visit to the meeting. Amongst other Americans who have promised to attend are Prof. Rotch, of the Blue Hill Observatory, Prof. Bauer, of the Magnetic and Geodetic Survey, Profs. Barker, Carl Barus, Campbell, Thurston and Scott. Prof. Calmette, of the Pasteur Institute, may possibly attend, but he is at present engaged on the Plague Commission at Oporto; Prof. Kossel, of Marburg, is with him, but hopes to come to Dover if possible. Prof. Kronecker, of Berne, will be also present, so that the foreign physiologists are well represented. Of foreign chemists, besides those mentioned, are Profs. Ladenburg and Fittig and Georges Lemoine. Geography will be represented by Prof. Hjort, of Christiania; Dr. Gerhard Schott, of the Deutsche Seewarte, who will speak on the results of the' Valdivia Deep Sea Exploration; H. Arctowski, who will read a paper on Arctic Exploration; Admiral MarkarofT, of the Russian Navy, will also attend. Abbe Renard, of Ghent, Dr. van Rijckevosel, Prof. Julin, of Liége, Prof Cyon are a few of the other celebrated foreign men of science who are expected.
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The Dover Meeting of the British Association. Nature 60, 463–483 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060463a0
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