2-798-448 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Ouse Bridge, York, 1844. Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science were held in York, and '... have continued through the week with increasing interest and popularity. "Thirteen years since", said the Earl of Rosse, at the opening general meeting, "the Society, at its first meeting in York, was but an infant assembly, but it had now returned to its native place, full of health and vigour, having achieved great works in the intellectual and moral improvement of mankind, and having still higher prospects in view"'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.