New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-09
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
TIE MEETING AT BRADFORD.

| CARPENTERS EULOGY or PROF. WILLIAMSON
ELABORATE SCHEME or THE LATTER FOR PRO
NOTING SCIENTIFIC EDUcNuoN-hR. gousrER's
POPULARITY AT BRADFORD.
lPRoM the REGULAR CONFECTIONERY or THE TRfBUNE.I
BR,DFoRD, Sept 1S.-This is the oriy-Third meet
ing. The man who organized the First OF the Forty
Three sat on the platform of st. Georges Hall last
night facing 1000 people who had come 10 bear the
| Presidents opening Address Gray-haired and sey-
enty bnt still vigoron8 Prof Phillips is among the
most active of membeTa and perfectly capable III
enjoying the contrast between the original and the
present state OF the Association That first meeting
was held Sept. a. 1854. Three hundred invitations
| had been sent'and six persons came. The Bradford
meeting is not considered a Success in point OF nam
beers, but the tickets issued TO mumbers up to last
| evening were 1900 | am not familiar with the
proceedings Of the American Association, but they
| may find something to initiate OF some hints in the
elaborate arrangements Of the British 1t is only
natural that scientific men should be adopts in Or
| ganigation. They take possession Of town like an
| army, with quarterm2sters and commissarles, and
| the camp they pitch il a model Of system and con-
| venience. The main room of the Exchange-given
up to the Association for recepton-room-is lined
with offices. for which board partitions, covered
with red cloth, have been erected, each office con-
spcuously labeled, and the distribution so elabo-
|
to 60 for whateverhe wants. Atone end satelegaph
and postonce, and half dozen printed placards tell
you the hours for dispatchng letters. On the sides
are Offices for supplying lodgings to members, half
dozen for the different sorts Of tickets issued,
another for parcels, Others for lost articles for
served seats at lectures for excursions and know
not what else. reading room adioins, where you
find plenty OK newspapers and plenty Of tables, and
the s. paiChas fee for membership includes unlim
tied supply OF stationery stamped in blue with
crest, the extremely novel motto, Labor omnia rinc,
and British Association, Bradford, 18T3-envelopes
to match. On the back of the ticket given to MEM
bers is plan # the town. with tho buildings occu-
pied by the Association, or sections OF it, colored-
the Exchange TIE Mechanics Institute, St. Georges
Hail. Courthouse. and Sunday chapeJ and school
rooms
Ia addition TO all this, the Association is pub
fishing body have on my table something like
dozen different circulars and pamphlets issued by
the Association for the information of members
conveying not scientific but practical information
Journal appears every morning, giving list OF
the meetings Of that day. where they to be held
aud at what hour, the papers to be read and gen
eral schedule or chart for the week. pamphlet of
50 pages second edition, contains list of resident
and nonresident members and associates, and
their addresses; VITA delegates and foreigners
among whom Prof. j. Lawrence smith, Louisville
last wears President Of the American Association.
Ggnres as sole representative of tine United states
separate folio sheet gives the officers and general
programme of the meeting particulars for getting
elected Office arrau Coments, particulars about rail-
way passes addresses excursions, places OF interest
In the town and ueighborhood manufactures and
warehouses open 70 visitors. For several Of these
matters there are distinct circulars embracing more
minute details and descriptions. pamphlet Of IL
PAGES is devoted 20 list Of hotels and lodgings AL
FAN onz since. For those who have had to 90 out
of town there arc special railway bills and time
table, Finally, and not the least interesting among
these mutifuou7 products Of the scientific printing
press comes large sheet, with list OF restaurants
and dining rooms, the hours when You can have
breakfast lunch, dinner, and supper and the prices
charged at each for each Of these meals. have not
exhausted the catalogue but these will serve to
show the completeness with which every sort of
want is provided for. Once settled, the members
have nothing 10 distract them from their beloved
service.
The real worl, Of the meeting has, 20 a great ex-
tent been done in advance. The papers to be read
have been prepared, aud the reading OF them at
tracts audiences more or less numerous according to
the interest of the subject the fame of the author
and sometimes proyOkes a.discussion. The Ass0cla-
ton divides itself into seven sections. VIZ: A
Mathematical and Physical Science; B-Chemical
Science; C-Geoogy; D-Biology three depart
mentsl Typography; F-Economic Science and
Statistics: G-Mechauical Science The three de-
partments Of Section d are Zoology and Botany,
Anatomy and Physiology and the famous depart
mept of Authropoogy, which, after hard struggle
for existence or recognition has become one of the
most attractive of all to the public, being the one
! where there il greatest probability OF tempest |
shall not forget in hurry the battles that ragged In
EdinburQu. in 1871, between the Biologists and the
Scotch Doctors Of Divinity.
The objects Of the Association are defined by its
title. and are further officially explained to be to
give a stronger impulse and more systematic di-
rection TO scientific inquiry; 20 promote the inter
course Of those who cultivate science in different
parts OF the British Empire with one another, and
with foreign philosophers; to obtain moro general
attention tor the objects of science, and the removal
| Of auydisadyantages Of public kind which impede
its progress 1t meets annually. for week or more,
and next year is TO GO to Belfast, Ireland the yeaI
following either to Bristol or Glasgow. The General
/ Committee of the Association assembled yesterday
for business. Financially, there seems nothing to
| complain of. Tho receipts of the year were over
! G4,OJ0, expenses about G31O0; leaving good bal
ance 1t is the liberaty OF the towns where yearly
meetings are held which enables the Association to
| show 80 good balance-sheet The local expenses
which would be very heavy, are paid by subscrip
ton and do not enter into the accounts unless there
is deficit IN the subscription. 1t became necessary
to elect a President in place of DIR. Joule incapac
tated by illness. Practically, the choice had been
made two months ago, and Prot. A. w. Williamson
of University College. London, selected, and this
nomination was Of course ratified by tho General
| Committee Otherwise, what would have becom,
of Prof Williamsons prepared and printed luaugu
| raj Address,
The public proceedings began last evening in st