The British Association at Oxford

Abstract

THE history, traditions, and amenities of Oxford mark it out as a place well suited to be the scene of the annual gathering of a body like the British Association; and it may safely be pronounced that the meeting that has just come to an end is not the least successful of those that have taken place since the Association has outgrown the questionings and misgivings that accompanied its earliest activities, and has made good its claim to efficiency and usefulness in the cause of commending the results of scientific research to the consideration of the community at large. This end has been met by the more technical and specialised communications that have formed the principal business of the sections, combined with the evening discourses delivered by men eminent in their own departments of science, with public lectures in Oxford and in neighbouring towns, and with lectures specially arranged for the benefit of older scholars from the elementary schools in the city.