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AT the Dundee meeting of the British Association, 1939, the Engineering Section proposes to repeat the arrangement which proved so satisfactory during the meeting in Cambridge last year and to devote some time to the delivery of a number of short communications by junior engineers or research workers (under the age of thirty years). Each speaker will be allotted a total of 20–30 minutes, which may, at his option, include, say, ten minutes for very short discussion. It is hoped that each author will describe some item of special interest or novelty upon which he may be engaged. This innovation seems to us important as enabling the Association to know something of the work of younger men, and enabling those men to gain experience of summarizing their work and putting it forward for criticism without having to undertake the much more laborious task of preparing a paper of the stature necessary for a full meeting of one of the engineering institutions or of a scientific society. Although Engineering publishes in extenso the text of all main papers delivered to the Section, it is not proposed that these short papers should similarly be published. This arrangement seems desirable, partly because authors may be prepared to describe engineering work upon which they hope later to publish a full-scale paper, and partly because authors may not feel justified in preparing a text of the completeness which would be desirable if proper publication is to be made. Those wishing to submit such papers should communicate immediately with the recorder Wing-Commander T. li. Cavc-Brown-Cave, University College, Southampton.
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The British Association: Engineering Section. Nature 143, 468 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143468c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143468c0