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A MEETING of the general committee of the Parliamentary Science Committee was held at the House of Commons on May 14, Sir Arnold Wilson in the chair. It was reported that recent accessions to the list of bodies allied to the Committee include the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Chemistry and the National Veterinary Medical Association. In the period reviewed in the Honorary Secretary's report, special mention was made of the Committee's successful efforts to secure consideration of the claims of scientific research in connexion with the Metropolitan Water Board Bill now before Parliament. Other activities reported included certain aspects of the Government of India Bill, the exemption from income tax of funds expended on industrial research, and the claims of science and technology to representation in the higher administrative posts in Government service. Sir Arnold Wilson addressed the Committee and in his concluding remarks said: βIt will take time to evolve a suitable mechanism and a live organisation, but, if sufficient support is forthcoming and the membership widened to cover science as a whole, there is no reason why we should not be of real use and value to the nation; for it is in Parliament, and nowhere else, that the balance between science and ethics has to be settled, day by day, in terms of statutes and regulations'β.
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Parliamentary Science Committee. Nature 135, 837 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135837b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135837b0