British Association Procedure

Abstract

IT has been to me a matter of surprise that a letter by Prof. O. Lodge published in these columns on October 17, 1889, did not elicit other similar communications, as the views he enunciated are undoubtedly those of a not inconsiderable number of active members of the British Association. Prof. Lodge pointed out that the British Association week undoes the benefit of the previous holiday, mainly because the conditions under which the work of the Sections is carried on are prejudicial to health. This I know from considerable personal experience to be the case; and in this and previous years I have had the remark addressed to me: “Surely you are not going to that British Association meeting to make yourself ill again.”