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Haunted history

The BAAS’s 84th congress
by
April 2021, no. 430

A Trip to the Dominions: The scientific event that changed Australia edited by Lynette Russell

Monash University Publishing, $29.95 pb, 160 pp

Haunted history

The BAAS’s 84th congress
by
April 2021, no. 430

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’.

Diane Stubbings reviews 'A Trip to the Dominions: The scientific event that changed Australia' edited by Lynette Russell

A Trip to the Dominions: The scientific event that changed Australia

edited by Lynette Russell

Monash University Publishing, $29.95 pb, 160 pp

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