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I860, when Mr. Darwin's derivative theory of species was first brought 
before the bar of a scientific assembly, and that the British Association 
at Oxford ; and I need not tell those who heard our presiding Sachem's 
address last Wednesday that the second was at Nottingham. " 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Report of the Papers, Discissions, and General Proceedings of the 
British Association. — Nottingham Meeting, 1866. By Wm. T. 
Robertson, Esq., M.D. London : Hardwicke. Pp. 305. 
The authoritative Transactions of the Association are never ready 
till the next meeting is about to be held, and then the interest of 
novelty is gone, and the volume is placed on the library shelf to be 
consulted as occasion requires. The newspapers of the day give 
reports of the meeting's, but they are always so imperfect, and what 
is given is so full of error, that they are next to worthless for scientific 
purposes. The public want a record of what has been done, with 
authoritative abstracts of the papers, speedily after the rising of the 
Association. Such a volume is before us. Its publication has been 
delayed by the illness of its editor, Dr. Robertson, who was one of 
the Local Secretaries. We are surprised that with six weeks' inter- 
ruption such an amount of editorial labour could have been so satis- 
factorily accomplished in so short a time. From the Editor's position 
he has obtained extensive assistance from the authors of the papers, 
and has consequently produced a really valuable and reliable volume. 
A history of Nottingham, an historical sketch of the A-ociation, and 
short biographies of all its Presidents, are prefixed to the volume. 
It will be welcome to those who were at Nottingham as a trust- 
worthy record of what they took part in, and will be valued by those 
who were not there as an accurate account of the work done at the 
meeting. 
