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IN very many ways has the general advance of intelligence, elevation of taste, and spread of education been shown during the present century, and more especially during the last thirty years; one of these ways is undoubtedly the increasingly rapid spread of Local Scientific Societies. What we mean by a “Local Scientific Society,” as distinguished from the large Societies of London, is an association of individuals in a particular locality for the common study of one or more branches of science, by the reading of original papers, and what is perhaps of more importance, the actual investigation of the natural history—geology, zoology, botany, meteorology—and archaeology of its district. Of the societies established within the last thirty years, nearly all are marked by these characteristics; such at all events is their professed object, and we are glad to say that, to judge from the special reports which we have received, and the numerous printed “Proceedings” of greater or less pretensions which are sent us from time to time, a very large proportion creditably carry out their programme.
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Local Scientific Societies . Nature 9, 24–25 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/009024a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/009024a0