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The illustrated London news . MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT , like Wisdom, is justified of her children. Time waswhen the annual sessions o£ the British Association were heldto he a capital theme for ridioule, and when journalists who thought it became them to raise an uproarious laugh at whatthey described as talking, peripatetic, and wool-gatheringphilosophy. It is not the first time by a good many that theBhadows which herald the approach of a majestic success, mis- interpreted by men who believe that there is nothing like leather,haveescitedwondrousebullitionsofnoiBymerriment, ofwhioheub-sequenteventshavemadethesaidmen sheepishly ashamed. TheBritiBh Association has not merely outlived the jeers of its earlyassailants—it has Been them converted into aoclamationB of SKETCH BY OUB SPECIAL ABT1ST r THE ILLUSTRATEDJ^ONDO^NEW^ ; ,i VCr troubled itself to note lU ..-. than ever convinced that the TO heeding, and com- lold works iB tatter worth 1 ? „, the wittiest paring notes ^upon,^^^ ^ ,„ the son are inS- craclding of thorns undcrapo . graUftcation in the ,„ oar view there., *J^£*Z, ^take aimost equally meetings of the Br t1Bl, A^i ^ CofflmemoratioI, The, 0J the < 01 a1 . Th „r„e ai90 for S is in .ovine ^Kt^otCZttalea rICBt Pktyth 2cannot tat be prcnt of themost abiding kind-charactcr-theic cannot tat pep Ucal and toStaralHta i^Ires which Science has discovered during hihitimi I ,, „lie„.„i I nman knowledge, the preceding year m tie ^ , mm) t *™S fai° for the display and exchange of and, like most other fair! it interblend, with basins a ££ *, £. 1 toget, c wrth tho e of Stephen on Br ne, Whitworth, and Armstrong, and who ha, J™ also as a monafnl votary of science, a a Mancheste n S
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