OF THK 
JUNE TO DECEMBER, 1872. 
GENERAL. 
I. 
Recollections of the Brighton (1872) Meeting of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science. 
By "Wm Lant Carpenter, B.A., B.Sc. 
Bead before the General Meeting, October 3rd, 1872. 
[Abstract.] 
The speaker commenced by stating that as the City of Bristol had sent 
an invitation to the Association to hold a meeting there in an early year, 
(perhaps 1875), it was desirable to spread a knowledge of the Association as 
widely as possible, in order that interest in it might be excited, and that a 
successful meeting here might be the result. He proposed therefore to 
touch briefly upon the History, Objects, and Constitution of the Association, 
and then to give some account of the recent Brighton Meeting. 
I. History. The Association was founded on September 27, 1831, at 
York, when, at the invitation of Sir D. Brewster, 300 scientific men attended. 
At the next meeting, in Oxford, 1832, the first of a series of reports on the 
progress of science was presented, — a series which has maintained its very 
high character to the present day — and through which the Association has 
won great prestige. Then followed meetings in Oxford, (1832), Cambridge, 
(1833), Edinburgh, (1834), and Dublin, (1835), and after these University 
towns, Bristol was the first to offer a temporary home to the Association, 
where the first, and as yet the only meeting was held here, under the 
Presidency of the Marquis of Lansdown, and attended by 1350 persons. 
Since then, meetings have been held yearly, the largest being at Newcastle- 
