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THE stress laid in the leading article in NATURE of September 16 on “The British Association and National Life” on the importance of the “enlightenment of an extensive group of workers as to main lines of advance in fields not specifically their own” emboldens me to repeat a suggestion which I have often made and never found acceptable. It is that the presidential addresses in the sections should be placed in the foreground of the work of the Association, and so timed that an individual member could hear them all if he felt so disposed. The president of a section may safely be assumed to know his own subject, and he is usually able to express his views in language sufficiently explicit to be clear to everyone interested in any department of science. It is of vital importance to every scientific worker to know how his brethren are heading, were it only in order to see which lines are converging on his own, and which in the light of new knowledge may seem to be diverging from it.
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MILL, H. The British Association. Nature 106, 113 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106113a0
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