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IN your leading article in NATURE of September 16 you have expressed what many of us have long felt: that the British Association is losing its interest for the people of the locality in which it meets. This is mainly on account of the highly technical character of most of the papers, which are suitable only for meetings of the special societies. The Association should not be regarded as a means of publishing new observations unless these are of fundamental importance. Its object is rather to give an opportunity for the local worker to exchange ideas with those who are more favourably placed. Again, the laboratory worker may come in contact with the practical man in many subjects to the benefit of both. Another useful function it may perform is in the discussion of border-land subjects in which more than one Section may be interested, and which do not lie definitely within the limits of any one of the special societies. In these functions, the extension of scientific interest to wider classes of the community and the removal of the barriers between different sets of scientific observers, the Association may meet a crying need of the time.
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CUSHNY, A. The British Association. Nature 106, 147 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106147b0
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