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THE fifth meeting of the British Association was held at Dublin during the week beginning August 10, 1835. The president was Dr. Bartholomew Lloyd (1772-1837), provost of Trinity College, Dublin, the vice-presidents, Lord Oxonantown and the Rev. William Whewell, while the local secretaries were William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), Astronomer Royal of Ireland, and Humphrey Lloyd (1800-1881), Erasmus Smith professor of natural anil experimental philosophy. The scientific proceedings were dealt with in six sections: (I) Mathematics and Physics; (II) Chemistry and Mineralogy; (III) Geology and Geography; (IV) Zoology and Rotany; (V) Anatomy and Medicine; and (VI) Statistics, to which was added during the meeting the subsection on Mechanical Science Applied to the Arts. The meeting was largely attended, and there was a great deal of entertaining. Among the most famous men of science who were present were Sedgwick, Rosy, Franklin, Agassiz, Dalton, Lardncr, Babbage, Murchison, Rennie, Sabine, Wheatstonc, Scott Russell and Eaton Hodgkinson. During the meeting the University conferred degrees upon William Smith, Sir Thomas Brisbane, Francis Baily, Prof, Moll and M. Agassiz.
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British Association at Dublin in 1835. Nature 136, 232–233 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136232b0
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