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COMMEMORATIVE SERVICE AT LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL. THE Dean and Chapter of Liverpool lose no occasion to make their great Cathedral the scene of public commemoration, and the centenary meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was celebrated there with a ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 20, which will remain vivid in the minds of everyone who assisted in it. It happens that this year's Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Alderman Edwin Thompson, was one of the Association's local secretaries for the meeting in Liverpool in 1923, and is the son of a local secretary of the meeting of 1896. He was therefore able in a special sense to express the feelings of Liverpool people on this occasion; he entertained the president, and president-elect of the Association at the Town Hall, and conducted them in full state to the Cathedral, where representatives of the University of Liverpool, the medical profession, and other public bodies, in academical robes, made a bright mass of colour in the choir, and the nave was filled to the doors; indeed, the greater part of the service had to be repeated later in the day. The thanksgiving service fell into three parts. The Dean, with the two presidents, and other members of the Association, presented themselves before the Bishop at the junction of choir and nave, and the presidentelect, General the Rt. Hon. J. C. Smuts, addressed him in the following words:
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The British Association Centenary. Nature 128, 572–575 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128572a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128572a0