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THE Council of Management of the British Science Guild, at a meeting held on January 19 last, decided to establish an additional lecture to be known as the Research and Development Lecture. The main object of this annual lecture, which will be delivered in London in April or May, is to promote attention to the importance of research—both purely scientific and technical—and the utilisation of its results in the service of mankind. The increase of knowledge thus secured has direct relationship with industrial development, the daily needs of the community, economic principles and social problems, human welfare and progress as well as methods of thought and the trend of civilisation. Each lecturer will be asked to select from his own particular field suitable examples of contacts with any of these factors of progressive thought. In establishing the lecture, the British Science Guild associates it with the name of Sir Richard Gregory and his work as editor of NATURE in securing increased recognition for scientific work and scientific workers in national life and in international affairs. The first of these research and development lectures will be given in May by Sir Harold Carpenter on “Metals in Industry”.
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British Science Guild Research and Development Lecture. Nature 131, 124 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131124c0
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