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Victoria and Vancouver, and all these gentlemen were heartily in favor of the 

 project and will hail enthusiastically a visit of this tha greatest scientific body 

 in the world. Premier Rutherford of Alberta and the Mayors of Edmonton 

 and Calgary were also decidedly favorable to the plan of bringing the visitors. 

 In the case of the cities it is of course too soon to bring the matter formally 

 before them as municipal promises cannot be made so long as three years ahead. 

 This subject will be brought before the Provincial authorities of Manitoba and 

 Saskatchewan, and the cities outside of Winnipeg in these two provinces. The 

 sentiment of everybody thus far approached has been completely with the plan 



LORD KELVIN 

 President B. A. S. (1871). 



of inducing the men able to judge of our resources to see for themselves the 

 greatness of promise of our prairie and mountain domain. 



OUR DUTY. 



Perhaps no greater means of influencing our kinsfolk across the sea could 

 be p'laced at our disposal than a successful meeting within our borders of the 

 British Association for the advancement of science. The idea is novel. To 

 have the convocation of hundreds of the world's greatest minds in a city, which 

 though now a University city, and having a population of upwards of l 00,000, 

 had yet when the writer first saw it only two hundred and forty people, is cer- 

 tainly unique. These men going back will tell in Great Britain and Ireland of 



