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IN many respects the American Association for the Advancement of Science is similar to the British Association, which served as a model for its organization and early development. It is the great democratic scientific organization of America (using the word in the geographical, not the national, sense), including in its interests all of science and its applications and relations to society. During a period of rapid increase in specialization and the organization of special scientific societies, it has served as an integrating agency. The breadth of its scope and the number of its members, now exceeding 20,000, make its voice more and more the voice of science in America.
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MOULTON, F. The American Association for the Advancement of Science: Columbus Meeting. Nature 145, 288–289 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145288a0
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