CHAPTER III 

 ORGANISATION 



The Sections Conviviality : the 'Red Lions 'Public interests at the 

 meetings Corresponding societies Membership of the Association 

 Public lectures The Presidency of the Association Eoyal interest. 



THE SECTIONS 



THE nucleus of the present sections of the Associa- 

 tion, in which the bulk of the scientific work at 

 annual meetings is transacted, was evolved in 1835 

 after a period of experiment during which more than 

 one grouping of the sciences were attempted. In 

 1831 ' sub-committees,' under the General Committee, 

 not distinguished by any letter or number, were 

 formed as follows. The names of their members 

 are worthy of record : incidentally they give point to 

 the order in which Brewster places the component 

 social and intellectual groups of the Association 

 c our nobility, clergy, gentry, and philosophers.' 

 The intimacy between scientific and ecclesiastical 

 interests at that time, to which we have already 

 referred, is revealed in the list which follows. 



SUB-COMMITTEES 



Mathematical and Physical Science 



David Brewster, LL.D., F.R.S. Rev.W. Pearson, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Sir Thomas Brisbane, K.C.B., Rev. Baden Powell, F.R.S. 



F.R.S. Rev. W. Scoresby, F.R.S. 



J. D. Forbes. Rev. W. Whewell, F.R.S. 



W. R. Hamilton, F.R.S. Rev. R. Willis, F.R.S. 



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