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MAY I, as an outsider deeply interested in the organisation and use of competent-knowledge in the nation's business, thank NATURE for the note in its issue of March 7 on the decision of the council of the British Association to suspend for yet another year the association's corporate life ? I do not challenge the opinion of the Cardiff Committee, nor would I criticise the disinclination of the council, when so many of its prominent members are working hard at urgent problems, to hold a meeting of the customary peace type. But why should there not be a meeting suitable to a time of war and of real peril? Would it not be wise to show that the association stands for something in the stress of a great storm? I would respectfully suggest that a two days' meeting be arranged this year in London, and that two things be attempted thereat:—
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ROBINSON, J. The British Association and the Nation. Nature 101, 45 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101045a0
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