A Trip to the Dominions: The scientific event that changed Australia
Monash University Publishing, $29.95 pb, 160 pp
Science and Technology
Haunted history
The BAAS’s 84th congress
by Diane Stubbings •
Founded in 1831, the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) sought to redress impediments to scientific progress that arose in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, determining that the BAAS would ‘give a stronger impulse and more systematic direction to scientific inquiry … [and] promote the intercourse of cultivators of science’.
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