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THE attention which is to be given at the Aberdeen meeting of the British Association to the relations between the advance of science and the life of the community may well make the meeting one of the most notable in its history. To a noteworthy degree the Association has adopted a policy urged upon it some thirty years ago by Sir Norman Lockyer, ‘to promote the application of scientific methods and results to social problems and public affairs’.
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Progressive Science and Social Problems. Nature 134, 301–303 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134301a0
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