240 THE ASSOCIATION AND THE STATE 



organising scientific research in the light of experience 

 gained during the war, in such directions as the in- 

 vestigation of explosives and arms, national health, 

 transport, commerce, and naval and military intelli- 

 gence. At the Cardiff meeting in 1920 a discussion 

 took place arising out of this resolution, when, 

 among other matters, the work of the newly established 

 department of scientific research at the Admiralty 

 was explained by a representative. A delegation 

 from the Association had previously discussed the 

 same question with the Master-General of the 

 Ordnance at the War Office. Other matters, arising 

 more or less directly out of the war, are still under con- 

 sideration at the time of writing, but there is already 

 reason to hope that the activities of the Association 

 in regard to them will have profitable results. 



It is not pretended that the preceding summary 

 details the whole of the Association's activities in 

 fostering the relations between science and the 

 State : other chapters will furnish additional ex- 

 amples. But an association which has taken the 

 lead, or played a leading part, in impressing upon 

 governments the practical importance of research 

 in different departments of cosmical physics ; which 

 has procured investigation into the place of science 

 in education from the kindergarten to the university ; 

 which has helped to obtain support for such exploring 

 expeditions as those of Livingstone and Speke and 

 Grant, for most of the later British efforts in the 

 polar regions, and for that on board the Challenger ; 

 which has addressed departments of State with 

 authority upon so many subjects, ranging from caste 

 to copyright law, has sufficiently demonstrated the 

 breadth of its interests and its power. 



