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SIR RICHARD GREGORY, who has been elected president for the coming year of the British Association, has been connected intimately with its activities for the past forty-three years. Both on the Council and upon sectional committees, his wide knowledge of men and their achievements, his tact and his infinite capacity for work have made his services of special value to the welfare of the Association and the progress of science. At the creation of Section L (Educational Science) in 1901, Sir Richard was one of the secretaries, and he has remained in the closest touch with the Section since that date, serving as president in 1922. No one has done more to keep the Section alive to the more pressing problems of education, and he brought to it the men and women most competent to advise on the special topics of the year's programme. He has also taken a vital part in the work of the committees of sections appointed to inquire into special problems. These committees often comprise a long list of distinguished names, but experience shows that the real work of gathering information and drafting the report falls upon comparatively few. Sir Richard was invariably one of these few. In the past thirty-eight years, he has served upon more than twenty such committees either as chairman, secretary or ordinary member, and it must be remembered that these committees run for several years and report annually.
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Sir Richard Gregory and the British Association. Nature 144, 472 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144472a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144472a0