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Title: The lens
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: State Microscopical Society of Illinois
Subjects: Microscopy Microscopes Microscopy
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : State Microscopical Society of Illinois
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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the meetings, which is highly suitable for theexcursions, but most unsuitable for lengthy in-door discourses; many of the lead-ing naturalists, though they attend the meetings, do not read any papers nortake any active part in the proceedings, while others do not attend the meet-ings at all, regarding them as mere exhibitions of talk and sham,—of egotism,superficiality, and dissipation. The conclusion arrived at by the critic is that such an organization—forthe promotion of science by its popularization—is in thorough accordance withthe spirit of the age, but that as at present constituted the * British Associa-tion must be regarded as mainly a fashionable means of social and scientificdissipation or recreation; that it has only a quasi-scientific character, its veryexistence depending on popular, not on scientific, support; that the real scien-tific work done is very small; and that it could be done more efficiently in amuch quieter, less expensive, and less ostentatious way. \
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