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After the B.A.

D

EAR LORD RAY- LEIGH, now that the scientists of the British Association have dis- persed at Nottingham to-day, it will be to reassemble under your presidency at Cambridge next year.

You will occupy the chair which your father graced before you-a distinction achieved, not by hore- ditary privilege nor by right of title, but in the true democracy of science, by your own merits as a scientist.

The honour carries with R arduous duties and heavy respon sbilities. For the British Associa tion is the sounding-board which makes the voice of British science resound all over the world.

WIII you use it to sound a chal. lenge?

Will you speak for all those scientists who have been silenced by tyranny or who, like Dr. Graefer at this year's meeting, are the ventriloquial voices of dic- tntors?

Will you say, In no uncertain way, that solence, which can do so much to advance civilisation, will refuse to be na Instrument for its destruction?

Will you reaffirm the transcen- dental truth of selence-that it seeks knowledge for the common good of all mankind?

You have a great opportunity, for you become president when the Association, nt the age of 106, Is in the full vigour of its second youth, when it is becoming a dynamic social force, and when the lay public, in the form of the Trades Union Congress, with all its Influence, is advancing half-way to meet the scientists by setting up a Scientific Committee.

I make these suggestions with much respect both for you and the B.A. There was a time, barely Ave years ago, when although it was supposed to De n "Circus of Science" on tour, its main feature then was Its team of white cle- phants. its academic tight-rope walkers, and is clowns who did the same tricks year after year.

Thut was at York, in 1933, when che "Tally Herald" urged that the British. Association shoukl see that the selen- tists should, as citizens, apply them- selves to the social problemin which they themselves had helped to create or could help to soke.

"HE following year, your famous and enlightened predecessor; Sir Freder- Ick Gowland Hopkins, both in his presidential address at Leicester, and in the introduction which he wrote to my book, "The Birth of the Future," told the scientists very clearly where their duty lay. Members of the Council then asked us to put forward concrete pro- points, as to how the sections of, the Association, each representing a different branch of silence, might be organised for the attack on social problems.

The proposals which we then mude were embodied, substantially, in the -proceedings-nt-Aberdeen.- under-Bir- James Jeans in 1934, when, may I re- mind you, Bir Jolin Orr began his mtrition crusade.

is Over

OPEN LETTER to Lord Rayleigh, next year's president of the British Association meeting, from Ritchie Calder.

G. W. C. Kaye, iis chairman, has shown at Nottingham ills year, is now trying to secure peace and privacy for the people in slum-clearance flats.

Last year, Mr. H. G. Wells appeared unexpectedly at Blackpool. As the great exponent of the social function" of actence, he had never had muchli respect for to academio back-scratch- ing of the British Association, But Ne caine, he saw, and was conquered. At tho age of 70 he joined the Association,

And this year he has mode, na presi dent of the Education Bection, one of the most notable contributions in the history of the Awociation.

He has used ille sounding-board to the best effect, and, in years to come. when the children of the world enjoy the true democracy and enlightenment of education. they will thank the British Associatios for provkiing a platform for Mr. Wells.

This year, loo, the Courell of the British Association has taken the Initiative in "showing the nations of the world that they are members of a great commonwealth and in furthering· the cause of international pence.”

nucleus of n democratic " World Assu- clation of Belence" concerned with the solution of International social prob- lems, finelloning, perhaps, like tho Health Organisation of the League or like the LLO

I know that the British Association La now, negotiating with the American Association for a closer relationship by collateral membership and ex change of publications, and that the A.A. is, like President Roosevelt, in difficulties with its constitution. But this, we auggest, is something bigger.

It is imperative that science should nssert its freedom. The gag of State control is not confined to Italy and Oermany,

We have suggested in the proper quarters that under your presidency

there

might be a symposium on "Belence and War"-the pubile has the right to expect it--but have been told that."there would be difficulties under the Official Secrets Act, pos- sibly under the Sedition Act."

That. we maintain, is a challenge io you on hend of the Association.

Another suggestion which we should like to make is that, just as we have had this year an admirable sympo shim on Planning the Land of Drtain. next year we should have

As a beginning, it is sending a depu- talion, under Lord Rutherford, to India, to sit in joint session with the Indian Science Congress and to see on population, that urgent and as a model for similar international conventions

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AND, Bow," a member of

the Council asked me, "are you satisfied ?”

No. And that is why I am addressing this open letter to you. To the British Association, I give grateful credit for what it has done. There is still much. It can do,

Will you, sir, give effect to the pro- posal which Dr. Waldemar Kacinp itert, science editor of "The New York Times," and I made, as a deputation of two, to Bir Josial Stamp last year. We had discussed it with Professor Conklin, president of the American Association, who, like all the foreign visitors, had been enthusiastically im Pressed by the independence and out- spokenness of the British scientists.

We proposed that the presidents of the two science associations of the English-speaking peoples should stre a Magna Charla, a Declaration of In- dependence, of Science, proclaiming that freedom of research and of ex- change of knowledge was essential, that Science sought the common good of all mankind, that "national aclence" was a contmdiction in terms.

Will you, sir, simplement nur further proposal that the British and Amerl Amoclations should form the

can

teh misrepresented problemi.

Y demands the examination of the biologists, the psychologists, the eco- tomists, the agriculturists, and the educationists-even the engineers, for bound up with it is the whole question of industry, Within four years the population of this country will begin to decline.

URTHER, the B.A. might do a great service, first by a discussion on "The Use, Abuse, and Non-Use of Selen- tifte Discovery and Invention." and, secondly, by setting up a standard committee to hold a watching brief on invention.

Vested intereats are smothering, or "putting in the Ice-box" discoveries which might benefit society or create new industries but which are sup- pressed because they threaten their profts.

We suggest, too, that the British Association should invite, through their Trade Uniona, the industrial workers. whom science affects at every turn, to became lay members of the Assocla- tion.

They can, I know, join as Individuals, or their unlong can by paying £31 105. become corporate members.

Yours sincerely,

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