The British Association: Connexion with Oxford

Abstract

AT the close of the first meeting of the British Association, held at York in 1831, the assembly stood adjourned to Oxford, the Rev. Prof. William Buckland becoming president-elect. Before the meeting dissolved, a speaker declared that in his opinion the Association was destined “greatly to enlarge the boundaries of science, and in so doing advance the many interests of human nature which depend upon the improvement of knowledge.” It was all very tentative then, a matter indeed of faith, and faith sustained hope.