British Association for the Advancement of Science

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Cornford
Frances Darwin (later Cornford ) travelled to Belfast to serve as hostess for her father , who was then president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , founded in 1831.
Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
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Delany, Paul. The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth. Free Press, 1987.
51
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Stopes
He came originally from a Quaker family but chose not to interfere with his wife's religious beliefs.
Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate, 1924.
185
He was a brewer, architect, civil engineer, anthropologist, and paleontologist, who met Charlotte at a meeting of...
Leisure and Society Florence Nightingale
At the age of fourteen, FN became involved in the activities of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (although actual membership was not yet open to women).
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002.
24
Occupation Ménie Muriel Dowie
MMD gave her first public lecture, at the British Association in Leeds, on the topic of what would become her first book: her journey through the Carpathian Mountains.
“19th Century British Library Newspapers”. Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers.
Birmingham Daily Post 10051 (10 September 1890): 5
Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
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Occupation Emily Shirreff
Restored for the moment to health, ES , with her sister Maria Grey , attended a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Nottingham in 1866. There they acted as hostesses...
Occupation Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan set up her first salon during her time in Paris. After returning to her home in Kildare Street and renovating it after its mistreatment by tenants, she made it the site of...
Other Life Event Harriet Martineau
She attended the coronation of Queen Victoria on 28 June 1838, standing on a railing in order to see more clearly.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 125
Later, she attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Publishing Lydia Becker
LB 's epistolary reportage of the British Association 's meeting at Montreal in Canada appeared in the Manchester Examiner and Times.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Textual Production Isabella Bird
Later that summer, in August, she addressed the British Association , a national scientific society, about her recent travels. She also spoke to church groups in order to raise money for medical missions.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications, 1994.
179-80
Textual Production Charlotte Stopes
This book began in 1885 as a paper for the British Association . However, at the meeting CS was not permitted to read either part of her two-part paper since the Committee felt that though...
Textual Production Lydia Becker
LB 's paper on a parasitic plant fungus was presented at the meeting of the British Association in Exeter.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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Textual Production Lydia Becker
LB contributed a paper on Some Supposed Differences in the Minds of Men and Women with Regard to Educational Necessities to a British Association meeting at Norwich.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Travel Lydia Becker
She attended the annual British Association meeting in Canada and took the opportunity to visit relatives.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
167

Timeline

27 September 1831: The British Association for the Advancement...

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27 September 1831

The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) was founded at a meeting in York.
Cannon, Susan Faye. Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period. Dawson; Science History Publications, 1978.
130, 201, 216
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
386-7
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
108, 129
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
I: 95
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
175
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
180-1

1833: William Whewell coined the term scientist...

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1833

William Whewell coined the term scientist at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science .
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
298
Yeo, Richard. Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
5

30 June 1860: T. H. Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce...

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30 June 1860

T. H. Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce clashed over evolution at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
330
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
124-5
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
30 June 2011

1868: Colonel Alexander Strange launched a campaign...

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1868

Colonel Alexander Strange launched a campaign for increased State support of physical science research before the British Association for the Advancement of Science .
Morrell, J. B. “The Patronage of Mid-Victorian Science in the University of Edinburgh”. The Patronage of Science in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Gerard L’Estrange Turner, Noordhoff International, 1976, pp. 53-93.
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February 1870: Gladstone agreed to appoint the famous Devonshire...

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February 1870

Gladstone agreed to appoint the famous Devonshire Commission in response to the British Association for the Advancement of Science 's campaign for formal enquiry into national provisions for scientific pursuits.
Morrell, J. B. “The Patronage of Mid-Victorian Science in the University of Edinburgh”. The Patronage of Science in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Gerard L’Estrange Turner, Noordhoff International, 1976, pp. 53-93.
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19 August 1874: John Tyndall attacked religion at a British...

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19 August 1874

John Tyndall attacked religion at a British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Belfast.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
190
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
127
Sawyer, Paul L. “Ruskin and Tyndall: The Poetry of Matter and the Poetry of Spirit”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 217-46.
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August 1915: The British Association for the Advancement...

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August 1915

The British Association for the Advancement of Science declared that, generally, adult women were less productive employees than adult men.
Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
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