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unusual facts about British Association



1842 in birding and ornithology

Hugh Edwin Strickland draws up the report of a committee appointed by the British Association to consider the rules of zoological nomenclature.

George Frederick Armstrong

He was honorary local secretary for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Iron and Steel Institute, and the British Association, as well as Honorary President of the East of Scotland Engineering Association.

George Thomas Beilby

He was president of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1899, of the chemical section of the British Association in 1905, of the Institute of Chemistry in 1909-12, and of the Institute of Metals in 1916-8.

McDonald Ice Rumples

It was named "Allan McDonald Glacier" after Allan McDonald of the British Association of Magallanes at Punta Arenas, who was chiefly responsible for raising funds for sending the schooner Emma on the third attempt, in July 1916, to rescue the 22 men of the Endurance left on Elephant Island.

Mount Humphrey Lloyd

He named this feature for the Rev. Dr. Humphrey Lloyd of Trinity College, Dublin, an active member of the British Association which promoted interest in magnetic and meteorological research in the Antarctic.


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David Brewster

In the same year in which the British Association held its first meeting, Brewster received the honour of knighthood and the decoration of the Royal Guelphic Order.

Edward Curtis Franklin

Franklin got invited to participate at the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Melbourne, Australia, and Johannesburg, South Africa.

George Barlow

George Barlow (footballer), British association footballer who participated in the Olympic Games in 1908

Lyall Stuart Scott

Scott served on the editorial committee of the British Journal of Urology, on the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and on the urology committee of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Royal Society of Portrait Painters

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters is a British association of portrait painters which holds an annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.