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THE discussion about the future of the British Association has turned mainly upon what may be called the “scale effect” consequent upon the vast increase in the activities connoted by the advancement of science. The effect is real enough; the decimal point has been moved on by one or more places in the course of the three-quarters of a century of the life of the Association.

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SHAW, N. The British Association. Nature 106, 178–179 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106178a0

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