Note 59 — Chapter XXXIII · THE AUTHOR’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.

I afterwards succeeded in getting the British Association to adopt the plan of having an exhibition of specimens of the various man­u­fac­tures and commercial products of the districts it successively visited. This commenced at Newcastle in 1838, and was carried to a much greater extent in the following year at Birmingham. I am not aware that this fact was ever referred to by those who got up the Exhibition of 1851.