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A BANDONING on this occasion the customary procedure of opening the proceedings with the presidential address, Section C plunged at the first meeting into the midst of its work with a long list of papers. The reason for this change was that Sir Archibald Geikie's address might be heard on Saturday by the visiting members of the French Association between their reception in the Town Hall and their entertainment at luncheon in the College Close. The arrangement proved highly successful, and the President's eloquent demand that geologists should be allowed to investigate the duration of geological time for themselves with data at their command, unhampered by the vague speculations in which the physicists have indulged, was listened to by a crowded audience, the platform being occupied by a distinguished group of British and foreign men of science.
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Geology at the British Association. Nature 60, 610–611 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060610a0
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