British Association Conference on Science and the Citizen

Abstract

THE British Association, through its Division for the Social and International Relations of Science, is arranging a conference on Science and the Citizen: the Public Understanding of Science, to be held on Saturday and Sunday, March 2.0 and 21, at the Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, London, W.1, by kind permission of the Managers. The Conference will be opened by Sir Richard Gregory, president of the Association, and there will be four sessions, the subjects of which will be the exposition of science, radio and cinema, science as a humanity, and science and the Press. The chair will be taken, at the successive sessions, by Sir Henry Dale, president of the Royal Society and director of the Royal Institution, Sir Allan Powell, chairman of the governors of the B.B.C., Prof. J. L. Myres, and Sir Richard Gregory. It is hoped that an exhibition of films of scientific interest will follow the session on radio and cinema. A list of speakers and other particulars will be issued in due course, and these and tickets of admission will be obtainable from the British Association, Burlington House, London, W.1. The Association, in arranging this conference, is continuing its policy of dealing, by this and other methods, with subjects of especial importance in relation to post-war reconstruction, which were touched upon in the course of the conference on “Science and World Order” held in September, 1941.