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BIRMINGHAM enterprise and Birmingham manufactures are known all the world over. One of the present remarkable features of this hard-working provincial town is a gradual infusion of the apparatus of scientific culture, not before its time. Thus we have now a potential, college, to say nothing of an increase in the number of its educational institutions and scientific societies. One of the most recently founded of these institutions is the Birmingham Philosophical Society—a title which one is apt to associate with respectable dulness—a circulating library, and a well-stocked reading-room. But the Birmingham institution, founded only in 1876, is something very different, and bids fair to rival her well-known Manchester sister. Already has the Society published a third thick part of its Proceedings, containing a number of original papers that would do credit to a London society.
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The Local Endowment of Research . Nature 21, 487–488 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021487a0
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