The York Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

Abstract

THE meeting of the British Association at York from the first to the eighth of August has a peculiar historical interest in that this interestingand beautiful town was the seat of the foundation of the association seventy-five years go and was the meeting place twenty-five years ago. This time the York Philosophical Society, under whose auspices the first meeting of the association was planned in 1831, was again the host. The many points of interest in the surrounding country andin the city itself, the numerous halls and meeting places, the beautiful garden and interesting collection of the museum and the great assembly hall, all combine to make York a most attractive and suitable place for this great gathering of the best in English science. The delightful hospitality of the people of York added much to the pleasure of this particular meeting. Perhaps the most attractive of the social gatherings were garden parties given by the Archbishop of York and Mrs. Maclagan at the picturesque and historical palace af Bishopthorpe; by the Sheriff of York and Mrs. Bentley at their beautiful home at Fulford Grange, and by the Messrs. Rowntree and Company at the celebrated cocoa works, while the museum and grounds of St. Mary's Abbey were lighted up by thousands of candles on two occasions for conversazioni. At the great cathedral an organ recital and a special