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conferred by its application to promote the social and material 
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by a sense of the deur of their enterprise, and of the world- 
Wide benefits which must flow from its success; they were, at 
loftiest regions and subtlest ether of natural philosophy. Long 
may the British Association continue a bond of union, and a 
