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LIKE Prof. Armstrong, I have followed with much interest the discussion about the British Association. I have had a long and intimate acquaintance with it, and have a strong affection for it. For one thing, it is so truly British—so far from perfect, yet so adaptable. I am not sure that my most earnest prayer for it is not that it may be saved from the reformer, especially the type of post-war reformer who threatens to organise, systematise, advertise, and Teutonise every British institution on which he can lay hands. It is surprising that no one has suggested the Association should be put under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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SMITHELLS, A. The British Association. Nature 106, 565 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106565b0
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