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ASSOCIATIONS FOR ITS PROMOTION. 
The British Association for the promotion of Social Science was 
founded by Lord Brougham in 1857. It has held thirteen annual 
meetings, and published thirteen volumes of transactions. 
There is a similar Association on the continent of Europe, known 
as the International. 
The American Associatilwi for the promotion of Social Science was 
organized in Boston in. 1865. It has published two numbers of a 
periodical entitled the 4 4 Journal of Social Science, ’ ’ edited by Henry 
Villard, Esq., Boston. 
The Western Social Science Association, by whom this brief state¬ 
ment is issued, was organized .at Chicago in 1868, and has held only 
one meeting. The Corresponding Secretary’s address is Rev. Fred. 
H. Wines, Springfield, Ill. The President is Z. R. Brock way, Esq., 
Detroit, Mich. 
Both the American and the Western Associations propose to hold 
annual meetings and publish transactions as fast as funds for that pur¬ 
pose can be obtained. They are laboring to secure the active interest 
and co-operation of all who are engaged in the cause of Social Reform 
in any of its departments—professors in colleges, officials of public 
institutions, members of the national or State governments, profes¬ 
sional men, students of science, and men or women in all the walks 
of life, whose minds and hearts^fe occupied with the problems of 
society. 
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