Advancing science : being personal reminiscences of the British Association in the nineteenth century / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940.
Date:
1931
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    sections of the Association ranged from A to G ; there was no H or I or K, still less L or M, or J. It may be of interest to mention that the great chemist Henry Perkin presided over the Chemical Section, and devoted his address chiefly to aniline dyes. Stokes attended this meeting, and gave a paper on Metallic Reflection. James Thomson illustrated by a model his now well-known theory of the origin of the windings of rivers in alluvial plains. And Crookes de¬ scribed the radiometer. Willoughby Smith’s discovery of the curious property of selenium, now so much used in television experiments, was referred to by the Presi¬ dent as having been recent ; also Tait’s discovery of neutral points in a thermoelectric circuit. DISTRACTIONS Of the meeting at Plymouth in 1877 I appear to have very little recollection, although my friend Carey Foster was President of Section A. It may be that I could not attend properly, because the meeting began on Wednesday, August 15th, and I was due to return home into Staffordshire and be married on Wednesday, August 22nd. My eldest son was born on August 1 ith next year, and on August 14th the Dublin meeting began.