Conferences Held In Connection With The Special Loan Collection Of Scientific Apparatus 1876

Excerpt from Conferences Held in Connection With the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, 1876 The Conferences in connection with the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at South Kensington Museum, of which these volumes form a record, originated in a suggestion contained in a letter addressed by the Right Hon. Viscount Sandon, M.P., Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, to the Presidents of the various Learned Societies. In this letter his lordship stated that it had been represented to the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education that the utility of the approaching Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus would be much enhanced, both to the English and to the Foreign men of Science who might be expected to visit it, if arrangements were made for explaining and demonstrating the method of using the various instruments, as well as for reading papers on, and discussing, scientific subjects; and he added that their lordships would be glad to afford every facility for earring out this proposal, and they desired to suggest, that with this view the various learned Societies should organise a series of Conferences similar to the sectional meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In accordance with this suggestion a Sub-Committee was formed consisting of the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of each of the Learned Societies by whom the details of the scheme were considered, and it was finally decided to recommend to their Lordships that the Sub-Committees of the various sections should be requested to undertake the organization o. the Conferences in those branches of science which came within their cognizance. It was also proposed that the Conferences should begin on the 16th of May, 1876, and last till the end of the month, and that the subject of the Conferences should be confined to the description and use of the instruments exhibited. The following are the Sub-Committees to whose labours the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education are so largely indebted for the successful carrying out of this proposal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.