Report of the Annual MeetingOffice of the British Association, 1904 |
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... taken into considera- tion at the Sectional Meetings of the Association . With a view of sub- mitting new claims under this Rule to the decision of the Council , they must be sent to the Assistant General Secretary at least one month ...
... taken into considera- tion at the Sectional Meetings of the Association . With a view of sub- mitting new claims under this Rule to the decision of the Council , they must be sent to the Assistant General Secretary at least one month ...
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... taken for mending roads in the vicinity under cover of the Highway Act , 5 & 6 Wm . IV . , c . 50 , ss . li . - liv . ' As the surface stones near to the highways become used up , and road - mending material has to be brought from ...
... taken for mending roads in the vicinity under cover of the Highway Act , 5 & 6 Wm . IV . , c . 50 , ss . li . - liv . ' As the surface stones near to the highways become used up , and road - mending material has to be brought from ...
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... taken by the Corre- sponding Societies Committee to give publicity to suggestions for any suitable line of investigation instigated by the Corresponding Societies themselves . Of the numerous branches of inquiry being carried on by ...
... taken by the Corre- sponding Societies Committee to give publicity to suggestions for any suitable line of investigation instigated by the Corresponding Societies themselves . Of the numerous branches of inquiry being carried on by ...
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... effort in the cause not only of Science but also of scientific education would be strengthened if backed up by the authority of the Association , the necessary steps may be taken by the Council to bring xcii REPORT - 1903 .
... effort in the cause not only of Science but also of scientific education would be strengthened if backed up by the authority of the Association , the necessary steps may be taken by the Council to bring xcii REPORT - 1903 .
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... taken to make the Reports of Committees ( as distinguished from papers ) communicated to the Association more accessible to the general public by the provision of Indices to the published volumes and otherwise ; and that the Council be ...
... taken to make the Reports of Committees ( as distinguished from papers ) communicated to the Association more accessible to the general public by the provision of Indices to the published volumes and otherwise ; and that the Council be ...
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Page 475 - ... give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 542 - Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.
Page lxxxviii - It is composed of representatives of management and labour both in the United Kingdom and in the United States of America. In the United Kingdom section the constituent bodies are the Federation of British Industries, the British Employers' Confederation and the Trades Union Congress.
Page 26 - Britain in the domain of learning and discovery, and what they alone can bring. I have also endeavoured to show how, when this is done, the nation will still be less strong than it need be if there be not added to our many existing councils another, to secure that even during peace the benefits which a proper co-ordination of scientific effort in the nation's interest can bring shall not be neglected as they are at present. Lest some of you may think that the scientific organisation which I trust...
Page ci - In view of the increasing importance of science to the nation at large, your committee desire to call the attention of the Council to the fact that in the corresponding societies the British Association has gathered in the various centres represented by these societies practically all the scientific activity of the provinces. The number of members and associates at present on the list of the corresponding societies approaches 25,000, and no organization...
Page 4 - It is a struggle between organized species — nations— not between individuals or any class of individuals. It is, moreover, a struggle in which science and brains take the place of swords and sinews, on which depended the result of those conflicts which, up to the present, have determined the history and fate of nations. The school, the university, the laboratory and the workshop are the battlefields of this new warfare.
Page 4 - Huxley pointed out that we were in presence of a new ' struggle for existence,' a struggle which, once commenced, must go on until only the fittest survives. It is a struggle between organised species — nations — not between individuals or any class of individuals. It is, moreover, a struggle in which science and brains take the place of swords and sinews, on which depended the result of those conflicts which, up to the present, have determined the history and fate of nations.
Page 453 - The report of the committee on the conditions of health essential to the carrying on of the work of instruction in schools...
Page 25 - Haldane has recently reminded us that " the weapons which science places in the hands of those who engage in great rivalries of commerce leave those who are without them, however brave, as badly off as were the dervishes of Omdurman against the Maxims of Lord Kitchener.
Page c - ... Your committee are of opinion that further encouragement should be given to these societies and their individual working members by every means within the power of the Association ; and with the object of keeping the corresponding societies in more permanent touch with the Association they suggest that an official invitation on behalf of the Council be addressed to the societies, through the corresponding societies...