Co-operation between the British and American Associations

Abstract

IT is probable that Lord Rayleigh's term of office will mark one of the most momentous periods in the long history of the British Association. To take the initiative in forming a Division to deal with the social and international relations of science is to undertake an onerous and responsible task for which the Association is peculiarly fitted, and in which it will have the good wishes of all who realize the effect that advances in science may have, for good or ill, on the welfare of our own community and of the nations of the world at large. As the Council of the Association does not meet until November, the General Committee, at its final meeting at Cambridge, approved the appointment of a provisional committee, and a few possible members of this committee were suggested to be invited to serve upon it. The publication of a list of the names of these members as forming even a provisional committee is, however, premature and unauthorized.