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Abstract

THE British Association having decided to hold its annual meeting this year at York, where, fifty years ago, its first meeting was held, it has been thought that advantage should be taken of this jubilee meeting to show, as far as possible, the progress which has been made during the past half century in the construction of instruments of scientific research, and, with this view, it has been decided to invite men of science, scientific societies, and manufacturers to exhibit, at the meeting, instruments of the latest patterns, and tools used in their construction. and if the science be fifty years old, the instruments used in 1831; otherwise specimens of the earliest patterns that can be found. The Exhibition will ba for the week of the meeting only, viz. from August 31 to September 8. To ensure that specimens intrusted for exhibition shall be as advantageously placed as possible, a special sub-committee, called “The Museum Sub-Committee,” has been formed at York, who will be happy to afford every possible information. The sub-committee includes several gentlemen who have had considerable experience in the arrangement of exhibitions, and they will give their personal attention to the unpacking, arrangement, and care of objects intrusted to them, so that the risk of injury will be reduced to a minimum. The articles exhibited will be insured against fire and provision will be made for police protection; beyond this the committee does not hold itself responsible. It is requested that exhibitors will put a value on their exhibits, in order that the necessary insurance may be made. The proposed Exhibition will also include apparatus and specimens illustrative of papers to be read at the Association meeting, which the authors may be willing to allow to be examined at leisure, as well as instruments constructed for the prosecution of special researches which have not yet become articles of ordinary commerce. It is very desirable that such instruments and apparatus should be exhibited in action, if arrangements can be made for the purpose.