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I. WE have devoted part of our space this week to a kind of Census of our Local Scientific Societies. It will be seen that in these Islands we already muster a goodly number, but no friend of Science would consider the number satisfactory; it does not, we are sure—seeing that there are twenty counties in England and Wales, and a much larger proportion in Scotland and Ireland, which appear not to boast of any such society—represent the true activity of the different regions from which, so to speak, the societies are fed. We do not suppose that our list is accurate; indeed our present purpose in printing it is to gather information. We hope that many societies exist which are not in our list; we fear that some have already ceased to exist since the time that Sir Walter Elliot, with infinite pains, compiled some of the data on which we have had to rely in the absence of information forwarded by the officers of the societies themselves.
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Local Scientific Societies . Nature 8, 523–524 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008523a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008523a0