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THE meeting of the Division for the Social and International Relations of Science of the British Association which was held last week in Manchester provided a particularly apt illustration of the twofold functions of the new Division. The formation of the Division is the outcome of the new recognition on the part of scientific men themselves of their responsibility for the social consequences of their discoveries, to which Dr. J. S. B. Stopford, the vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester, referred in his address of welcome. While, however, the formation of the new Division has been widely welcomed outside the ranks of scientific workers themselves, as indicated, for example, in the remarks of Mr. C. Woodock, head of the economic and research department of the Trades Union Congress in the discussion, the meeting made it clear that educational work in this field must for some time to come be an important activity of the Division.
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Science, Industry and Society. Nature 144, 1–3 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144001a0
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