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British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831-:)

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Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Addresses and Speeches, c. 1850s - 1870s

 Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.12: Series Coll-203/B14; Series Coll-203/B15
Identifier: Coll-203/B15
Scope and Contents Series of printed addresses given by Charles Lyell, including: 1) Printed Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, 15th Feb 1850 and awarding Wollaston Medal to Peter Hopkins. Unopened. 2) Printed Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, 21st Feb 1851 and awarding Wollaston Medal to Adam Sedgwick. Unopened. 3) Manuscript speech delivered by Lyell at the [New York City] Crystal Palace Banquet,...
Dates: c. 1850s - 1870s

Correspondence mainly consisting of invitations for Waddington to deliver lectures, 1955-1973

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Identifier: Coll-41/3/2
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence from various institutions, societies and organisations, including: various universities; the British Association for the Advancement of Science; the Cambridge University Natural Science Club; Royal Scottish Museum; British Cattle Breeders' Club and others, demonstrating the wide range of organisations at which Waddington was invited to lecture.

Dates: 1955-1973

Letter from the British Association for the Advancement of Science to Thomson, offering him a vice-presidency for the year 1951, 3 Nov 1950

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Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/1/14
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes letters to and about Thomson regarding his life, work, and career from a variety of correspondents including Karl Pearson, Egon Pearson, Edward Lee Thorndike, Sir James Duff, Carlos Paton Blacker, David Glass, and Derrick Lawley.

Dates: 3 Nov 1950

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A. Irving, 14 August 1913

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/19/40
Scope and Contents Irving asks Ewart for his opinion of the paper concerning the Equus robustus horse type, and encloses a copy of the Section D paper from the British Association. He reports that he saw and handled the horse tooth found in the Piltdown gravels, and he believes it to be part of Equus robustus. He wonders whether it would be worth a short note in Nature, and wonders how far back Equus...
Dates: 14 August 1913

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from A.W Russell, 27 May 1901

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/15
Scope and Contents

Russell invites Ewart to stay with him and his wife during the coming meetings of the British Association in Glasgow in September.

Dates: 27 May 1901

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 06 September [1911]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/53
Scope and Contents Elwes reports that Bateson did not have any particular ideas about the Iceland wool, but that he invited Elwes to read a short paper on the subject at the meeting of the British Association at Portsmouth, which prompted a discussion. He has heard that the Development Commissioners are prepared to establish breeding and experimental stations, and thinks Ewart may do valuable work. He remarks that Colonel Malcolm of Poltalloch has offered him an island which he is going to visit the following...
Dates: 06 September [1911]

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Samuel Henry Butcher, 28 July 1908

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/14/24
Scope and Contents

Butcher asks Ewart to remind him who a certain Melville Foster is, who introduced himself to him recently. He invites Ewart and his wife to visit him when he is in Dublin for the British Association meeting, and asks the whereabouts of Ewart's daughter Jessie.

Dates: 28 July 1908

Letter to unidentified recipient [C.C Hurst?] from J.B Robertson, 07 September 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/55
Scope and Contents

Robertson corrects the recipient on certain points relating to views on the correlation of pigmentation in the thoroughbred expressed at a recent British Association meeting.

Dates: 07 September 1911

Printed Papers, c.1829-1864

 Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 1.23 (Formerly Gen 119): Series Coll-203/8 (Lyell 8); Series Coll-203/9 (Lyell 9)
Identifier: Coll-203/9 (Lyell 9)
Scope and Contents Printed Papers consists of: address delivered by Sir Charles Lyell at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London (1836) Lithology of the Environs of Edinburgh by Dr Fleming (1856-1857) Biographical notice of Sir Charles Lyell as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1864) press cutting of letter from Sir...
Dates: c.1829-1864

Reports of the Committee of Section D of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/5/8
Scope and Contents

Contains a report of the Committee of Section D and a report detailing the 'proposed Zoology Organisation Committee'.

Dates: 1904

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