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Dover, September 19. THE meeting of the British Association at Dover, which concludes this week, has been on the whole a great success, especially when the size of the town and the fact that it is the most ambitious effort the town has ever made are considered. The number of members and associates present falls little short of 1400, and amongst these are included an unusually large number of the chief representatives of science. The proceedings at the various Sections have been interesting, though there has been no very startling announcement made at any of them, but very good work has been done. Though there is, perhaps, no longer as great a necessity as formerly for the missionary side of the Association's work, yet its usefulness as a common meeting ground for representatives of science in every branch can never be overrated. The necessity for some such central gathering point as the Association affords becomes the greater as science becomes more and more specialised.
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The Dover Meeting of the British Association. Nature 60, 494–510 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060494a0
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