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THOUGH for the most part science proceeds upon her even way, her head raised above the changes of the times and her feet firmly planted in regions unswept by surface movements, nevertheless her response to the needs of time and place was well marked in the proceedings of the British Association at Leicester this year. The surrounding country was the focus of many contributions on regional planning, land utilisation, education for the local industries, its system of grazing, its early colonisation, its water supply, and so on. This attention to its needs and recognition of its efforts cannot but be appreciated by the citizens of Leicester. Finally, education in relation to the agricultural need of the region occupied time, and stress was also laid upon the need of science and especially of the biological sciences. The cultural educational value, as opposed to its industrial value, of science in relation to adolescence and adult life was emphasised in several contributions, while the stringency of the time was prominent as shown by the many contributions on vocational training, for example, of university men for a department store, Post Office men for the counter staff, and, in general, the needs of business in administration. The rapid colonial extension in Africa particularly East Africa in recent years was reflected in a number of papers and demonstrates the new centre of interest. It adumbrates and lays the foundation for administration based on knowledge of place and people. Modern physics was, of course, well represented an account of the discussion on atomic transmutation appears elsewhere in this issue (p. 432).
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British Association. Nature 132, 435–436 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132435a0
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