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NEXT year the British Association for the Advancement of Science will meet in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (August 31-September 7). The Council has completed appointments to the various offices in the Association ; these include : President, Sir John Russell ; General Treasurer, M. G. Bennett ; General Secretaries, Dr. Edward Hindle and Sir Richard Southwell ; Presidents of Sections, Sir Harold Spencer Jones (Physics and Mathematics) ; Sir Alfred Egerton (Chemistry) ; Prof. W. J. Pugh (Geology) ; Prof. A. C. Hardy (Zoology) ; Prof. L. Dudley Stamp (Geography) ; Sir Alexander Gray (Economics) ; Sir Arthur Fleming (Engineering) ; Mr. M. C. Burkitt (Anthropology and Archaeology) ; Prof. R. A. Peters (Physiology) ; Prof. Godfrey H. Thomson (Psychology) Prof. Lily Newton (Botany) ; Sir Fred Clarke (Education) ; Prof. N. M. Comber (Agriculture). The chairman of the Local Executive Committee is Lord Eustace Percy. The Lord Mayor of Newcastle has issued an appeal for a local fund of £4,000, and more than two hundred local volunteers are already making preparations for what is expected to be one of the largest meetings in the history of the British Association.
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British Association : Newcastle Meeting, 1949. Nature 162, 882 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162882c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162882c0