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AN important stage in the history of amateur scientific circles on Merseyside was a reception at the University of Liverpool on March 3 of the Associated Learned Societies of Liverpool and District, which represents some twenty amateur societies with a membership of about 4,000. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Dr. H. J. W. Hetherington, who is also president of the Associated Societies, welcomed the gathering, while the Pro-Chancellor of the University, Mr. C. Sydney Jones, said the University is always to be looked upon as a friend and encourager of the amateur scientific bodies of Liverpool. The chairman of the Associated Societies, Mr. W. Mansbridge, in passing a vote of thanks, told how in the past the co-operation of amateur and professional scientific workers that existed in the societies has been to the benefit of each, and the societies have often been of help to the research workers at the University. A tour was then made of the various departments, where exhibits and demonstrations had been arranged. The Associated Learned Societies of Liverpool and District was formed in 1922 to promote co-operative undertakings between the various learned societies, to stimulate the interchange of ideas to the benefit of the societies or of knowledge, and to promote cordial relations between them and the University, the local education authorities and the municipal institutions. The committee has, in the past, arranged a number of joint soirées and scientific exhibitions, lectures and excursions to places of scientific interest.
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Associated Learned Societies of Liverpool and District. Nature 133, 355 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133355b0
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