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IN his presidential address to the British Association, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales spoke with singular felicity of the relations which do actually, and should, subsist between the State and scientific research. The discussion of a multiplicity of topics, which was released as it were from a floodgate immediately after the inaugural meeting, may have obscured the fact that the opportuneness of the Prince's reference to the application of scientific study to the problems of the Empire in our Dominions and Dependencies was conclusively demonstrated by the presidential address delivered in the Geographical Section on the following day. The lesson was further driven home by the discussion on the effect on the native races of Africa of contact with European civilisation which arose directly out of Mr. Ormsby-Gore's address, and took place in a joint session of the Sections of Geography and Anthropology.
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African Natives and European Civilisation. Nature 118, 289–291 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118289a0
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