3-017-236 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Meeting of the British Association at Birmingham: the secretary of the Valley Field Club reading a paper on the geology of the district, 1865. 'Hunger and thirst level all distinctions. The blending of science and sociability was very pleasing; and sandwiches and savans, and British Associates and bitter beer, were a most suggestive alliteration. When the rattle of knives and forks and the popping of corks had subsided, Mr. Cooper, of the Severn Valley Field Club, read a paper explanatory of the carboniferous limestone of the district'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.