The British Association

Abstract

WE must first tender you our best thanks for having, at this time of inevitable reconstruction, opened your columns to a discussion which has been of great value in showing the general trend of opinion concerning the future of the British Association. We have had the benefit of letters from presidents and secretaries of Sections in addition to those printed in your columns, and now beg to offer a few general comments. But we hope we shall not be regarded as attempting thus to closure the debate and dismiss it from our minds; rather do we regard, the period of discussion, and, we would add, of experiment, as just beginning. It was with the full consciousness that much new enterprise and revision of old procedure were desirable that we invited the recorders and local secretaries to a friendly meeting at Oxford in the spring of this year, and we hope to continue at regular intervals the discussions then initiated and helpfully continued in your columns. We need only add here that as it is an essential function of the British Association to consider and act upon all suggestions tending in any way to the advancement of science, we hope that if you receive further communications for which you, cannot find room you will do us the favour to forward them for our consideration.