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#BAAS membership 1914

Text from the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science is available in the texts folder, along with separate files for the BAAS membership list, and those who joined at the main Australian locations, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. They are taken from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/reportofbritisha15adva

Women are generally identified by their titles -- Miss, Mrs, Lady, Dame -- so I've created a simple script to cycle through the names and identify the proportion of women members. There will however be some women doctors that the script will miss.