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others carries the list of lecturers c to the operative 

 classes' down to the year 1911, after which, again 

 beginning (very appropriately) with a meeting at 

 Dundee, there appears an alteration of practice and 

 an extension of principle. It had become evident 

 that with changing times the limitation indicated by 

 the title of the series had ceased to be appropriate ; 

 and there was no reason on the Association's side why 

 the number of lectures should be limited to one each 

 year. In 1910 one of the evening discourses to the 

 Association (that by Professor W. Stirling 1 on ' Types 

 of Animal Movement ') had been repeated ' to the 

 public ' at the place of meeting, Sheffield. The 

 Council therefore willingly accepted a proposal to 

 alter the title of the series to Public or Citizens' 

 Lectures, and undertook to appoint any number 

 of lecturers for which a local executive committee 

 might ask, and from 1912 onward there have been 

 (1921) three or more public lectures at each meeting. 

 The Workers' Educational Association, the founda- 

 tion of which, in 1903, indicates the growth of demand 

 on the side of the workers for such help as can be 

 given through the British Association's public lectures, 

 has collaborated in the local arrangements for these, 

 and, in some instances, has suggested topics which 

 would be specially acceptable. The Association and 

 the lecturers provide these lectures from a wholly 

 disinterested desire for the advancement of science, 

 and thereby demonstrate that sense of class-union 

 which it was Adam Sedgwick's wish to foster. And 

 yet it was possible and at no remote date for a 

 borough councillor purporting to represent labour, 



1 Professor of physiology and histology, Manchester University. 



