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THE British Association has now constituted a committee to work the Division for the Social and International Relations of Science which was established at the recent meeting of the Association in Cambridge. The committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Richard Gregory, includes the president and general officers of the Association ex-officio, Sir Daniel Hall, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Sir John Russell, and Lord Stamp as vice-chairmen, and as other members: Prof. F. C. Bartlett, Prof. J. D. Bernal, Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, Mr. Ritchie Calder, Mr. A. M. Carr-Saunders, Prof. S. Chapman, Dr. C. H. Desch, Prof. A. C. G. Egerton, Prof. H. J. Fleure, Mr. E. W. Gilbert, Prof. N. F. Hall, Mr. R. F. Harrod, Prof. A. V. Hill, Sir Clement Hindley, Prof. L. Hogben, Dr. L. E. C. Hughes, Dr. J. S. Huxley, Mr. D. Caradog Jones, Prof. H. Levy, Dr. C. S. Myers, Mr. Max Nicholson, Sir John Orr, Prof. J. C. Philip, Prof. J. G. Smith, Prof. R. G. Stapledon, Prof. F. J. M. Stratton, Prof. F. E. Weiss, Mr. H. G. Wells, Mr. J. S. Wilson, Dr. S. Zuckerman. The main purposes of the Division are stated to be “the objective study of the effects of advances in science on communities, and reciprocally the effects of social conditions upon the progress of science ; and the encouragement of the application of science to promote the well-being of society”.
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Social and International Relations of Science. Nature 142, 987–988 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142987d0
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