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Meeting of the British Association in York, 
August ist to 8th, 1906. 
Previous Meetings— 
Inaugural Meeting 
1831 
Fourteenth Meeting 
1844 
Jubilee Meeting 
1881 
The history of the 76th Meeting of the British Association 
may be said to have begun on June 6th, 1904. On that day a 
deputation from the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, consisting 
of Dr. Tempest Anderson, Mr. Chas. E. Elmhirst, Dr. Auden, 
Mr. R. Thompson and Mr. H. M. Platnauer (at that time 
Keeper of the Museum), waited on the Lord Mayor and City 
Council to suggest that the Association might be asked to hold the 
Meeting for 1906 in York. On the proposal of the Lord Mayor 
(Aid. R. H. Vernon Wragge), it was unanimously resolved that 
the Association should be invited to celebrate its 75th year in 
the city. In consequence of this, a deputation, consisting of 
the Lord Mayor, Sir Joseph Sykes Rymer, the Town Clerk 
(Mr. R. P. Dale), and Dr. Tempest Anderson, attended the 
General Meeting of Members of the British Association at 
Cambridge on August 19th, 1904, and gave the invitation, 
which was cordially accepted. 
The earlier stages of local organization were necessarily 
somewhat informal, as the initiative had to be taken by 7 men 
interested in the movement who formed self-constituted bodies. 
But the few appointments made, or suggested, at the outset 
were natural and obvious. Aid. R. H. Vernon Wragge, elected 
Lord Mayor for the third time, was Chairman of the Local 
General Committee, Dr. Tempest Anderson (President of the 
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