British Association: Officers and Meetings

Abstract

AT the meeting at Norwich of the General Committee of the British Association, Sir Josiah Stamp, General Treasurer of the Association, was elected president for 1936. Sir Josiah, who is chairman of the London Midland and Scottish Railway, was president in 1930-32 of the Royal Statistical Society and enjoys an international reputation as an economist. The office of General Treasurer of the Association has been filled by the election of Prof. P. G. H. Boswell, until now one of the General Secretaries. Prof. F. J. M. Stratton, the other General Secretary, decided not to offer himself for re-election, so it became necessary to appoint two new general secretaries. These offices have been filled by the election of Mr. F. T. Brooks, reader in mycology in the University of Cambridge, and Prof. Alan Ferguson, assistant professor of physics at Queen Mary College, London. The new members of council are Lord Bledisloe, Prof. W. G. Fearnsides, Prof. Julian S. Huxley, Prof. R. Robinson, Dr. C. Tierney and Sir Gilbert Walker. Future meetings of the Association are announced for Blackpool (1936), Nottingham (1937), Cambridge (1938), Dundee (1939) and Australia (1940); and it is suggested that a selected party be sent in the winter of 1937-38 to take part in the jubilee meeting of the Indian Science Congress.