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THE British Association has recently been receiving from the Ministry of Health information of all schemes in progress under the Town and Country Planning Act, in order that if any of these should disclose any risk of the destruction of sites or objects of scientific interest, representations may be made on behalf of the Association to the planning authorities and to the Ministry. In addition to natural features, or possibly buildings, which may be worthy of preservation on scientific grounds alone, it is clear that there must be many areas worthy of protection on grounds of amenity, and at the same time of sufficient scientific interest, whether geological, botanical or otherwise, to justify adducing arguments from the side of science in their favour. The first step taken by the Council of the Association was to communicate with all the local societies in correspondence with the Association, inviting their attention to the subject of planning and asking for information on any instances in which the Association might usefully take action: only a few have as yet come to hand. The whole subject will come under consideration at the Norwich meeting of the Association, when it will be dealt with by Prof. P. G. H. Boswell in an address as chairman of the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies. Meanwhile the Council has appointed a panel of some sixty prominent members representative of geology, geography, botany and zoology, any of whom may be called upon for advice in connexion with proposals for preservation, and all of whom have been asked to bring to the notice of the officers any examples which may have come under their personal notice.
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Preservation of Sites of Scientific Interest. Nature 135, 424–425 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135424d0
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