The Field Naturalist's 

 Quarterly 



Vol. II. NOVEMBER 1903 No. 8. 



Editorials. 



The Annual Meeting of the British Association was held 

 this year in Southport, and was well attended, there being 

 some 1 800 members, associates, etc., present. The meeting 

 opened on 10th September, when the President, Sir Nor- 

 man Lockyer, delivered his presidential address to a 

 crowded audience. After a reference to the loss sustained 

 by the Association and British science generally in the 

 death of the late Lord Salisbury, and the announcement 

 that the President for next year was to be Mr. A. J. 

 Balfour, Sir Norman Lockyer proceeded to deal with the 

 Influence of Brain-Power on History. His first point was 

 that statesmen and politicians will in the future be com- 

 pelled to pay more regard to education and science as 

 empire-builders and empire-guarders than they have paid in 

 the past. That the British Association has a distinct call 

 to assist in this direction was brought out by quoting the 

 objects of the Association as laid down by its founders 

 seventy-two years ago. These objects are — " To give a 

 stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific 

 inquiry — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate 

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