British Association : Newcastle Meeting, 1949

NEXT year the British Association for the Advancement of Science will meet in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (August 31-September 7). The Council has completed appointments to the various offices in the Association ; these include : President , Sir John Russell ; General Treasurer , M. G. Bennett ; General Secretaries, Dr. Edward Hindle and Sir Richard Southwell ; Presidents of Sections , Sir Harold Spencer Jones (Physics and Mathematics) ; Sir Alfred Egerton (Chemistry) ; Prof. W. J. Pugh (Geology) ; Prof. A. C. Hardy (Zoology) ; Prof. L. Dudley Stamp (Geography) ; Sir Alexander Gray (Economics) ; Sir Arthur Fleming (Engineering) ; Mr. M. C. Burkitt (Anthropology and Archaeology) ; Prof. R. A. Peters (Physiology) ; Prof. Godfrey H. Thomson (Psychology) Prof. Lily Newton (Botany) ; Sir Fred Clarke (Education) ; Prof. N. M. Comber (Agriculture). The chairman of the Local Executive Committee is Lord Eustace Percy. The Lord Mayor of Newcastle has issued an appeal for a local fund of £4,000, and more than two hundred local volunteers are already making preparations for what is expected to be one of the largest meetings in the history of the British Association.