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- Title: Heredity and Radium at Dublin an Impression of the British Association Meeting (Report)
- Author : Science Progress
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
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- Size : 187 KB
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The stimulating air of Dublin had a very visible effect on the British Association. The members were in great force, and among Associates were fewer of those very unattached camp-followers who enjoy not Science but the reputation which is bought cheaply at a guinea. The name of Darwin as well as the air of Dublin no doubt added impetus to the meeting. People wanted to hear about Darwin, and one of the mistakes of the week was that they were allowed to hear so little. No speech was more popular than the few words, very beautifully said and delivered, in which Sir Archibald Geikie explained how in his later years Charles Darwin found an encyclopaedia in his sons, getting mathematical and astronomical facts from George, botanical facts from Francis, financial and mechanical help from the others. It seems to many a mistake that the President, Mr. Francis Darwin, who has written delightfully on his father's life, held aloof from evolution. A big popular audience was longing to hear what this satisfying word, which can be safely used in the drawing-room, really meant. The President is a good Darwinian, a firm believer in the adequacy of natural selection, recently much out of favour with men of Science. Instead he plunged almost without an introduction into very difficult questions of cell development. The gist of the lecture was as severely handled by botanical critics as by the popular audience. Yet the contribution was original, and the short summing-up of his last paragraphs as plain and direct as, may one say, the concluding sentences of those inexplicable rigmaroles which so often made an hour's prelude to the decisive climax of Cromwell's speeches.
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