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THE first quarterly part of the Advancement of Science, the new journal of the British Association which is being issued in place of the annual volumes published by the Association from 1831 until 1938, contains the presidential address of Sir Albert Seward, “The Western Isles through the Mists of Ages”, as well as the presidential addresses to Sections D (Zoology), H (Anthropology) and K (Botany), with abstracts of communications to those Sections. An admirably written introduction reviews the Dundee meeting and the circumstances which led to the premature termination of an exceptionally promising and well-attended meeting, and also indicates the tentative policy of the new journal, which it is hoped will make a wider appeal to lay readers than an annual volume could do. The number also includes reports of research committees to Sections D, H, and K, as well as the report of the Council to the General Committee for the year 1938–39, and the report of the Division for the Social and International Relations of Science for the same period. Among the subjects which have received attention by the latter Division, other than those forming the subject of public meetings, are the incidence of taxation on scientific research; areas and objects worthy of protection on scientific grounds; recommendations on details demanded in census returns and their analysis; scientific news in the Press; scientific exhibitions; co-operation with the International Council of Scientific Unions in relation to questionnaires on science and society; and assisting the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning. The number also includes a first instalment of a scientific survey of Dundee and district.
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The Advancement of Science. Nature 144, 892 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144892b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144892b0