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Galton returned to the charge against the section, 

 on the grounds ' that the subjects commonly brought 

 before [it] cannot be considered scientific in the sense 

 of the word that is sanctioned by the uses of the 

 British Association. Also that the section is isolated, 

 and [as it] avowedly attracts much more than its share 

 of persons of both sexes who have had no scientific 

 training, its discussions are apt to become even less 

 scientific than they would otherwise have been/ The 

 view does not appear to have impressed itself upon 

 Galton and his adherents that the easiest entrance 

 to an appreciation of the work of pure science may, 

 for the layman, lie through the gateway of science 

 applied. 



CONVIVIALITY : THE ' EED LIONS ' 



The other objections which have been indicated 

 above to the formation of new sections lead naturally 

 to the consideration of a new difficulty which the 

 Association has always encountered that of holding 

 the balance true between the interests of the public 

 whose friendship for science it is an object of the 

 Association to promote, and those of the ' cultivators ' 

 of science themselves. It may be urged that these 

 interests should be identical : in practice they are 

 not. At an early stage we find the leaders of science 

 embarrassed by the warmth of the public welcome 

 accorded to them in the cities successively visited by 

 the Association, and the view has been commonly 

 expressed that a full measure of hospitality weighs 

 down the scale against serious scientific labour. 

 Even at the first meeting at York Johnston found it 

 so : * On future occasions it will be advisable, as is 



